Needle, Patrice Lawrence
Type
Label
Needle, Patrice Lawrence
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Needle
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Patrice Lawrence
Summary
A powerful and heart-rending exploration of a teenagers journey through grief, rage and getting caught in the criminal justice system from award-winning author Patrice Lawrence. Charlene is a demon knitter. Its the only thing she enjoys and the only thing she believes shes really good at. So when her foster mums son destroys her latest creation, Charlene loses it and stabs him in the hand with her knitting needle. It damages a nerve and she gets sucked into the criminal justice system for assault. Charlene's not sorry and shes never apologised to anyone in her life. But people keep telling her that if she says sorry, theyll go easier on her. Can she bring herself to say it and not mean it when her freedoms at stake?
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Genre
- Stories for Struggling or Reluctant Readers
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories
- "Children's / Teenage general interest: Law, police & Crime"
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Emotions
- High interest-low vocabulary books
- For reluctant readers (children)
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues
- Children's / Teenage: Social issues
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction
- Teenage Fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage: Personal & social issues
- Young adult fiction
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Politics
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
- General Stories
Subject
- Children's / Teenage: Social issues
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues
- General Stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction
- Stories for Struggling or Reluctant Readers
- Young adult fiction
- For reluctant readers (children)
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Emotions
- Children's / Teenage: Personal & social issues
- High interest-low vocabulary books
- "Children's / Teenage general interest: Law, police & Crime"
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories
- Teenage Fiction
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Politics
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism
Author
Other version
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre17
- Stories for Struggling or Reluctant Readers
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories
- "Children's / Teenage general interest: Law, police & Crime"
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Emotions
- High interest-low vocabulary books
- For reluctant readers (children)
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues
- Children's / Teenage: Social issues
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction
- Teenage Fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage: Personal & social issues
- Young adult fiction
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Politics
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
- General Stories
- Subject17
- Children's / Teenage: Social issues
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues
- General Stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Crime & mystery fiction
- Stories for Struggling or Reluctant Readers
- Young adult fiction
- For reluctant readers (children)
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Emotions
- Children's / Teenage: Personal & social issues
- High interest-low vocabulary books
- "Children's / Teenage general interest: Law, police & Crime"
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories
- Teenage Fiction
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Politics
- Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism
- Author1
- Other version1