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Scarecrows (Puffin Teenage Fiction)
In a brooding story about jealousy, hatred, murder, and love, Simon is outraged that his mom plans to remarry. He can't bear the way she and his sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred, he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. But another, powerful hatred lingers within its walls. And it is about to be unleashed.
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(first published 1981)
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The story is a third-person narrative, but the point of view is entirely that of Simon Wood - his thoughts, feelings and memories, the things he sees and experiences, conversations he has, conversations he overhears. The novel opens at Simon's boarding school, where the poisonous atmosphere of bullying and denigration has nurtured Simon's "devils", as he describes his blind rages. It is there that he first sees Joe Moreton, who has given Simon's widowed mother a lift to an event at the school; S...more
Robert Westall is a genius. SCARECROWS is a chilling book, brilliantly written. Simon is struggling to come to terms with himself and the changes in his family. When he goes to stay with his mother and her new boyfriend, he discovers a creaking old mill with a dark past.
This is a terrifying book without any gore or cheap scare tactics. The building of the tension is deliciously unbearable and the ending will keep bouncing around in your head long after you finish reading it. Whenever I had to st...more
This is a terrifying book without any gore or cheap scare tactics. The building of the tension is deliciously unbearable and the ending will keep bouncing around in your head long after you finish reading it. Whenever I had to st...more
Apr 13, 2012
Samantha-Ellen Bound
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The Scarecrows was first published in 1981 – it’s more of a recent children’s classic, but rightly so, because it’s one of the best contemporary children’s novels I’ve read. I say contemporary even though The Scarecrows does have elements of horror and the supernatural – but these things arise out of the main character’s psychological trauma. The way Westall does this is seamless and powerful. Some of the content is quite daring – a few of the passages would not make the final edit these days, I...more
"หุ่นไล่กา"
มันเป็นวรรณกรรมเยาวชนจริงๆเหรอ ? (สำนักพิมพ์รีวิวไว้ว่างั้น)
เปิดเรื่องมาบรรยากาศก็เครียดแล้ว ยิ่งอ่านไปหลังๆ...เฮ่ย..นี่มันสยองขวัญละป่าวหว่า
หรือว่า วรรณกรรมเยาชน = หนังสือที่มีเด็กเป็นตัวเอก
ชอบสำนวนแปลของคุณสาลินี คำฉันท์ จัง
ปล. ปกของใน goodread อันนี้ดูหลอนดี
ปล.2 ชอบหนังสือเล่มขนาดเท่านี้จัง เล็กพกพาสะดวก
มันเป็นวรรณกรรมเยาวชนจริงๆเหรอ ? (สำนักพิมพ์รีวิวไว้ว่างั้น)
เปิดเรื่องมาบรรยากาศก็เครียดแล้ว ยิ่งอ่านไปหลังๆ...เฮ่ย..นี่มันสยองขวัญละป่าวหว่า
หรือว่า วรรณกรรมเยาชน = หนังสือที่มีเด็กเป็นตัวเอก
ชอบสำนวนแปลของคุณสาลินี คำฉันท์ จัง
ปล. ปกของใน goodread อันนี้ดูหลอนดี
ปล.2 ชอบหนังสือเล่มขนาดเท่านี้จัง เล็กพกพาสะดวก
I came away uncertain whether this was fantasy or psychological drama. I thought is was the latter but the ending confused me.
Good, but hella scary, from what I recall - I usually block out scary books.
My favorite of all of Robert Westall's books.
May 01, 2013
Susanna
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Robert Westall was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England in 1929.
His first published book The Machine Gunners (1975) which won him the Carnegie Medal is set in World War Two when a group of children living on Tyneside retrieve a machine-gun from a crashed German aircraft. He won the Carnegie Medal again in 1981 for The Scarecrows, the first writer to win it twice. He won the Smarties Priz...more
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His first published book The Machine Gunners (1975) which won him the Carnegie Medal is set in World War Two when a group of children living on Tyneside retrieve a machine-gun from a crashed German aircraft. He won the Carnegie Medal again in 1981 for The Scarecrows, the first writer to win it twice. He won the Smarties Priz...more
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