The Knife That Killed Me Av Anthony Mcgowan

<p><b>Anthony McGowan is the Carnegie Medal 2020 winning author of <i>Lark</i>.</b><br><br><i>He is coming to kill me.<br>Now would be a good time to run.<br>I cannot run. <br>I am too afraid to run.</i><br><br>Paul Varderman could be at any normal school - bullies, girls and annoying teachers are just a part of life. Unfortunately ''normal'' doesn''t apply when it comes to the school''s most evil bully, Roth, a twisted and threatening thug with an agenda quite unlike anyone else. When Paul ends up delivering a message from Roth to the leader of a gang at a nearby school, it fuels a rivalry with immediate consequences. Paul attempts to distance himself from the feud, but when Roth hands him a knife it both empowers him and scares him at the same time . . . <br><br><b>This thought-provoking and original novel</b><b> highlights the terrible consequences of peer pressure and violence, and casts a spotlight on the worrying rise in knife crime among teenagers. </b></p>