Sleep Rough Tonight

by Ian Bone

When he gets out of the detention center for serving time due to Alex's confession, Jockey acts as a friend to Alex again and dares him to spend a night out on the streets with him, yet in taking the dare, Alex quickly comes to realize that surviving the streets will be less frightening than surviving Jockey's planned revenge.

Genres: Young Adult, Teen

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

I am an author of books for young readers and young adults. I am Australian, and my books are published in Australia, the USA, the UK, Germany, Korea, Brazil and Finland.

My novel, The Song of an Innocent Bystander is being adapted into a major feature film. My children's book series, Philomena Wonderpen, has been bought by an International media company to be adapted for television.

I teach writing and I work as a video producer and e-learning developer in my spare time!

Reviews

[Ashleigh]

I don't think this book was very realistic.
It started out alright, a class clown getting bullied, meets up with his girlfriend && then they find out that an old friend is back in town, but half way through part 2, it got a bit far fetched.
All in all this book was...okay =]

[Grace Halliday]

mmm I remember reading this in high school and really liking it... unfortunately it doesn't have that same effect now... good for what it is though, a good Australian YA fiction.

[7 Ahmed Semir]

its was O.K.