Steve and Ashraf are friends - or at least they used to be. Militant racist organizations are growing in influence and the two friends find themselves getting drawn into a cycle of hatred. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 readers, this book tackles the topics of racism and peer pressure.
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.
