**Two best friends grow up --and grow apart--in this innovative contemporary YA novel ** Told in dual timelines--half of the chapters moving forward in time and half moving backward--_We Used to Be Friends_ explores the most traumatic breakup of all: that of childhood besties. At the start of t
We Used to Be Kings
β Scribed by Foster, Stewart
- Book ID
- 109002213
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 860 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Six years ago Tom's brother died. The next day he came back.
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It's Tom and Jack's 18th birthday, but it isn't a cause for celebration. For the past three years they've been in a home for troubled children, where Dr Smith tries to silence the voice of Jack in Tom's head.
But Tom's already lost his brother once, he's not going to lose him again.
And so they will have to pretend Jack has gone. Because one way or another they've got to get out of this place. Because Tom and Jack need to find out what happened that summer six years ago that changed everything...
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We Used To Be Kings is the story of a young boy's descent into madness following the loss of everything he knows. Set in the 1970s, it is reminiscent of unusually hot summers, pictures of Russians in space and war on our doorstep. It's an audacious, at times...
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