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Gray, Keith

 
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Synopsis

Happy is the rock group who are going to make it. Will dreams of being a rock star, but nobody believes he can do it. His teachers complain that his school work is slipping and his friend, Danny, can't decide where his loyalties lie. Will has to succeed somehow, for his father's sake.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Keith was born and brought up in Grimsby and knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. When he received 0% for his accountancy exams he decided to pursue his dream.

Since then, he has gone on to win the Angus Book Award and the silver medal in the Smarties Prize. He has twice been shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Booktrust Teen Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Rave reviews about his writing have appeared in every broadsheet. Keith was a judge for the Blue Peter Book Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Bookstrust Teen Prize and reviews regularly for the Guardian.

Keith is now a full-time writer living in Edinburgh.

Présentation de l'éditeur

'Hundreds of people want to be in a band. They all get guitars and they all play gigs and they all write songs, and they still never make it.'

There's a big difference between being a rock star and a pop idol - Will and Danny know which they'd prefer to be. Unfortunately, mad punks, car chases and a girl called Beth threaten to shatter not just their dreams of rock stardom, but their all too precarious friendship as well. Will the boys follow their dreams and live out their ambitions...

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