The Cage

by Roy Brown

A group of teenage boys plan an escape when they realize their imprisonment is part of an experiment to repattern their personalities.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Roy Frederick Brown, born in Vancouver B.C., was deputy headmaster of the Helen Allison School for Autistic Children, Gravesend, Kent, from 1969-75.

"Among major children's writers of the 1970s, Roy Brown was one particularly open to his times, in tune with their issues and concerns and, while the readability and human interest of his stories guarantee a wide readership, the settings indicate a conscious desire to offer the non-academic urban child a means of identification. The years brought development in technique but not deviation from city backgrounds and characters at risk or disadvantage in modern society." [source: Peggy Heeks in Twentieth Century Children's Writers (Macmillan, 1978).

Reviews

[Deborah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love my library and WorldCat that got this book for me.

[Leela4]

Young adult suspenser with the grittiness of books like "I Am the Cheese" or "Lord of the Flies".

[N · Rating 4 out of 5]

A surprisingly engaging mystery with interesting characters and a nicely chilling twist at the end.