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    Bitter Sixteen

    By Stefan Mohamed

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    Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize for new writers

    A Times Children’s Book of the Week

    A Guardian Top Teen Read of 2015

    “Happy birthday, Stanly. We hope you like your present…”

    Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird is a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend is a talking beagle named Daryl, and that he gained the powers of flight and telekinesis when he turned sixteen.

    Unfortunately, his rural Welsh home town is not exactly crying out for its very own superhero. London is calling – but what Stanly finds there is a good deal weirder and more terrifying than anything he could have imagined. Perhaps he should have stayed in Wales …

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSalt
    Release dateMar 16, 2015
    ISBN9781784630447
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    Stefan Mohamed

    is an author and occasional poet. He lives in Bristol, where he does something in editorial. Find out things you never wanted to know about him at www.stefmo.co.uk

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    • 5/5
      Stanly Bird wakes up on his 16th Birthday with superpowers, a surprising but welcome fact he shares with his best friend, his talking beagle Daryl. Before too long though, Daryl’s secret is in danger of getting out and he has to leave his small Welsh town and head to London. In London Stanly learns more about his abilities, and learns he’s not the only special one around.This is one of the most original and funny books I’ve read in a while. Stanly is immensely entertaining with such a clear and distinct voice that it’s hard not to become best friends with him.I work with a lot of teenagers and Stanly reminds me of my favourite parts of all of them, he has a quiet confidence when it comes to the things that really matter to him, but he has an almost constant internal dialogue of insecurity. Mostly he seems worried about doing the wrong thing and making an arse out of himself, a trait we can all identify with. He is passionate, loyal, and hyperactive, all in the body of a cynical teenager.Stefan Mohamed managed, with just one book, and one amazing character and his talking beagle, to muscle his way into my list of favourite authors with his flawless, witty, insightful, brilliant writing. If you haven’t read Bitter Sixteen yet, why not?