Stone Cold (Puffin teenage fiction)

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After Link's father abandons his family, Link's mother starts a relationship with a new boyfriend, who forces Link out of the family home in Bradford. Link, now homeless, decides to travel to Camden, London. Here he meets Ginger, a streetwise homeless man, who takes him under his wing. Link and Ginger work together and become friends. urn:lcp:stonecoldpuffint00robe:epub:c797206c-4702-4320-8bc0-22ec0ff1ff81 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier stonecoldpuffint00robe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2v41zp1w Isbn 0140362517 Alcohol: Vince is frequently drunk, which sometimes causes him to threaten or abuse others. At Christmas dinner, everyone but Link drinks. Vince gets drunk and rambles about Link’s laziness, how he’s taking his sister’s money and how he’s spoiling everyone’s Christmas. One day, Ginger decides to meet his old friends. Link waits for him, but he doesn't return. It transpires that Shelter has abducted Ginger by telling him that Link was at his apartment, badly injured. Link finds out Ginger has been murdered. Robert B. Parker's Stone Cold is the fourth novel in his Jesse Stone series, but it is the first in the series to be adapted into a film, and contains significant differences. In the film, Jesse's relationship with Jenn is still relegated to phone calls, they do not reconcile at the end and Jesse does not stop drinking; in the novel, they get together and reconcile and Jesse stops drinking. In the film, Jesse sees Abby exclusively prior to her murder; in the novel, their relationship is not exclusive. In the film, Jesse sets up the Lincolns at Candace's house; in the novel, the final shootout takes place in a mall. Finally, in the film, Officer D'Angelo is not murdered. [2] Rating [ edit ]

Link is seventeen when he leaves home in the north of England for London, to escape family issues. He can’t find work and is soon homeless. He meets up with Ginger and makes a friend, but then Ginger disappears. I liked that the story didn't have a happy ending. While I would have liked that, it wouldn't have been realistic at all, and therefore would have undermined the issue it was trying to represent. Link’s narrative details the day-to-day trials of homelessness. He talks about the bitter cold of nights on the street, the burning hunger, the struggles of panhandling, the impossibility of getting a job and the nightly fear of others lurking in nearby dark doorways. One day, Ginger doesn’t return to the boys’ designated meeting place. Link is hurt and concerned, but another of Ginger’s friends says this is just the way it works. Maybe he got a job, decided to leave town, or any number of things. Readers learn from Shelter’s narrative that Ginger has become the newest soldier in his army of dead drifters. The writing (often in vernacular) was very engaging and relatable. I thought this was an effective way of helping us understand the characters better.Carnegie Winner 1993. Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. CILIP. Retrieved 2018-02-28. Meanwhile, intermittent chapters describe the ramblings of a disjointed military vet who calls himself Shelter. He is angry at being discharged after many years of service and believes the country’s homeless population is a result of a government conspiracy. He’s taken it upon himself to fight for his country by disposing of drifters. Shelter develops an elaborate plan for luring young homeless people to his house, killing them, dressing them up as his own private army and burying them beneath the floorboards. Convinced that he’s seen Ginger and Link laughing at him, he begins stalking them. Most of us can’t relate to the characters as we are not homeless but they did a very good job of portraying the way that homeless people are thought of in society and how they are treated. I think that one of the main reasons for this book being written was to show the hardships that people without homes and jobs have to face every day. It also helps to open your eyes to all the things in our lives that we take for granted Casino king Jerry Bagger is hunting Annabelle Conroy, the elite con-artist who cheated him out of millions. Stone and his colleagues must draw on all their resources if they are to protect Annabelle from a terrible fate.

This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( June 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Stone Cold is the first in a series of nine television films based on Parker's Jesse Stone novels. The film first aired on the CBS television network February 20, 2005. Even though it was broadcast first in the series of films, it actually takes place after the second film of the series, Jesse Stone: Night Passage, which aired a year after this. not gonna lie it was quite boring. Maybe if he got together with Gail at the end or he got off the streets I would have liked it more. Instead it ends as it begins with Link homeless and alone on the streets. Also he should have saved Sappho and they could have been homeless together. That would have been nice. Harry Finn is leading a double life. By day he is a mild-mannered suburban dad who dotes on his wife Mandy and his three kids. But by night he is on a quest of vengeance, taking out the squad of CIA killers who murdered his father and made it look like a suicide when he was still a kid. He’s been driven to this desperate quest for vengeance by his elderly mother Lesya, who appears to be suffering from dementia, but is actually in hiding in her nursing home as we learn when we witness her speaking perfectly coherent Russian to her son. Lesya is a former Soviet sleeper agent who was embedded in the US but then fell in love with Finn’s father. They married and she became a double agent, but his spymaster, Gray, never quite believed that she was trustworthy. To punish him for the relationship, Gray sent the Triple Six team to kill him and make it look like a suicide. Finn has grown up hearing stories about this injustice all his life, and finally found himself in a position to do something about it. Stone Cold is a Carnegie Medal-winning thriller by Robert Swindells. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.The subject matter is not a nice one but I thought it was dealt with well - it was honest, didn't shy from the horrible bits, and didn't overly dramatise/romantise it. It helped raise an important issue in a realistic way. Overall I think that this novel is very good and I would recommend it to fans of realistic horror novels but I think most people would enjoy because of the various theme that it uses. It is definitely a novel aimed at the older reader as the ideas in the novel can be a bit heavy going and may scare younger readers. I would rate this novel a 3 out of 5. Link says that on the streets, men will sometimes try to get into sleeping bags with soft-skinned young men like himself. Another time, he mentions the dangers of men who like young boys and think, because they’re homeless, they’ll do anything for money. Do you ever walk past a homeless person sitting on the side of the street and wonder to yourself how they feel or what is going through their mind? Well Stone Cold written by Robert Swindells is a novel about exactly that. Swindells is a multi-award winning English author. His other popular books include Room 13, Brother in the Land and Nightmare Stairs. Stone Cold is one of his most popular novels and has won the prestigious Carnegie Medal.

My sister was talking about this book along with others she had done for her GCSE English and English Language course, among the books she had, this appeared to interest me most. Probably because it was one that I have not read before, even while I was going through my GCSEs.The Camel Club is a loosely organized group of intellectual oddballs headquartered in Washington, DC. Comprised of rare books expert and librarian Caleb Shaw, retired Special Forces soldier Ruben Rhodes, and math genius Milton Farb, they are led by a man who calls himself Oliver Stone. In the past, Stone was a member of the fictional "Triple Six" assassin division of the CIA, but he has since renounced killing and instead works to uncover the immoral secrets of the US government. I read some of this with school. Normally when you read books with school you never finish them and they always tend to be quite boring. Well according to my stereotype i did never finish it but it wasnt actually that boring, although in some parts iI'm not gonna lie were boring. Me and my friend were just dreading the idea of having to get this book out and read yet another chapter. In the end though we agreed that it was in actual fact wasn't as bad as we initially thought. Link meets a young man named Ginger, and the two become friends. They live and beg together, and Ginger teaches Link the finer points of surviving on the streets. Yet all their skills may not be enough when a deadly new opponent rips off the veneer of Stone’s own mysterious past. An unstoppable killer intent on one goal: the death of Oliver Stone.

Read this is school. This book was boring and if it hadn't been for school I wouldn't have read it. I didn't look forward to reading the book and it made the schoolwork that much worse because there wasn't much to write about. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-05-17 17:29:30 Boxid IA155101 Boxid_2 CH123201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor Brianna and Andrew Lincoln are middle-aged thrill killers, independently wealthy from a patent Andrew obtained for an optical scanner he invented while practicing medicine. The couple moved to Paradise and began selecting random people and murdering them while videotaping their crimes. Later they find erotic pleasure in watching the videos of the murders while having sex. Jesse and Luther pay the Lincolns a visit and briefly interview the couple, who show interest in the murders. As they leave, Jesse tells Luther that the Lincolns are the killers. Vince leers at Mum, making suggestive comments about going to bed and rounding out a decent night. He nudges and winks at Link, trying to get a reaction. Link notes that he never remembers his own father talking about sex or even hinting at it. Link says that something happened between his sister, Carole, and Vince one night when Mum was working late. He never knew the full details, but he had a pretty good idea about what it could have been. Afterward, Mum and Carole fought, and Carole moved in with her boyfriend. Sunday Times One of the world's biggest-selling thriller writers, Baldacci needs no introduction . . . Brilliant plotting, heart-grabbing action and characters to die for

The story is told in alternating chapters, one by Link and the next by an ex-military mass murderer who preys on the homeless. The text includes several variations of the Lord’s name in vain. B–tard, h—, d–n, a– (and arse), p—, fugging (used as the f-word would be), crap and s— also appear. Gail takes a long telephone call and Link wanders off by himself, where he is approached by an old man. Unbeknownst to Link, it is Shelter, who uses the excuse of a missing cat to lure Link into a building. Smoking: Several people smoke, including Link, in an effort to curb their hunger. Since the book is British, the word fag is often used for the word cigarette.