From Booklist
Gr. 9-12. The gut-wrenching screenplay that won top prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival is reprinted here as a small YA paperback. With brutal invective, it tells the story of Scottish teen Liam, who is living on the streets peddling drugs and hustling money any way he can. His goal is to provide a home for his mother when she's paroled from prison and to help his single-parent sister and her son, so that they can all escape his violent grandfather and Mum's bad boyfriend. Nothing stands in the way of his dream, not his best friend, not arrest, not even the fear of his own death. A devastating indictment of the plight of throwaway children, this is a violent drama of grit, survival, and great pain. It is also a touching picture of a child's unrealistic dream of family. Film buffs will appreciate the movie-script format and the production notes, as well as the author's introduction and prize acceptance speech. Frances Bradburn
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