UK Writer
Simon Mayo
Itch
Corgi
Books 2013
$19.99pb 422p
ISBN 978 0
5525 6550 9
Themes:
Chemistry/ Funny stories/ Series/ Periodic table/ Secondary
School life
Long-listed
for The Carnegie Medal 2013
Fourteen-year-old
Itch (short for Itchingham) is a bit of an outsider; loves chemistry and has
decided to collect all the elements in the periodic table. Then, one day he discovers a new
element, never seen before and he finds he is being hunted by some sinister
heavies. This is a fast moving
story, hard to stop reading and should be popular, particularly with boys from
around 10 up. This is the writer’s
first book and he tells the story with a light touch.
Year 6 up/
Age 10 up
Simon Mayo
lives in London where he works as a radio presenter of book and film reviews.
Watch out
for Itch Rocks coming soon.
My copy fell to pieces after two
enthusiastic and not particularly gentle 10 year olds had read it. It looks
like that old, was it called, Skira
binding where the pages are just glued to the spine? You might want to see if you can reinforce it in some way because it WILL get heavy use,
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