Daz 4 Zoe (Puffin Teenage Fiction) [Paperback]

Robert Swindells (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 29, 1995 | Series: Puffin Teenage Fiction

It is the year 2051 and Britain is a divided country, deliberately divided by economic and education strategies. Half the population shelters in fortified suburbs (Newtown); the other half resentfully smoulders in sealed-off ghettoes. This is the story of privileged Zoe and Daz, the semi-literate ghetto dweller, whose brother was executed for raiding with the underground resistance movement. When Zoe and her friends go slumming one day, she meets Daz - and it's Romeo and Juliet all over again. But their impossible relationship has far-reaching consequences ...

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About the Author

Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors and is a full-time writer. He has won the Children's Book Award twice, for BROTHER IN THE LAND and for ROOM 13. In 1994, he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD, and also the Sheffield Book Award.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Puffin Books (June 29, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140372644
• ISBN-13: 978-0140372649
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,070,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Swindells left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.
RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Unique, Engrossing Novel, November 7, 2003

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This review is from: Daz 4 Zoe (Plus) (Paperback)

Daz 4 Zoe portrapys a dystopian future where London is a walled city barricaded against the poor, homeless, and hungry. The story is a split first person narrative of Daz,a boy who lives rough, and Zoe, an upper class girl quite ignorant of how people live outside the city. Daz's narrative is initially hard to read because it is in an uneducated teen dialect, but you do get used to it. Even though this is speculative fiction, it's not too hard to imagine this future possiblity. Of course Daz and Zoe meet, that's what starts the conflict, so you have both Daz and Zoe learning about their very different worlds.

It may be a challenge at first to underdstand Daz's dialect at first, but it's well worth the effort!