The Road of Bones
No. of pages 256
Published: 2011
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book is part of a book series called Roller Coasters .
This book has been graded for interest at 12-17 years.
There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published in 2011 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
Anne Fine is a bestselling author, former Children's Laureate and prize-winner with great profile across the trade, libraries and educational markets.
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This book has been nominated for the following award:
Carnegie Medal
This book was recognised by the Carnegie Award. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people.
"This ambitious book is a rare achievement . . . Subtle, stimulating and morally complex but it is also evocative and convincing: we feel keenly the chill of both soulless hegemony and its frozen wastes" * The Sunday Times *
"It carries lessons to be re-assimilated by young readers - how society can be deceived, how people can become powerless and how tyranny can breed tyranny" * The Bookseller *
"A hybrid of political concern and an excruciatingly exciting adventure-thriller, Anne Fine's The Road of Bones could easily be described as a Magnum Opus . . . The Road of Bones might be cold in setting but at heart glows with an intensity of warmth, passion, fervour and belief, it is the novel that all should resolve to read" -- Jake Hope * Achuka *
"The Road of Bones is a startling achievement, not least for its refusal to wrap it all up into a neat and tidy happy ending. It will leave its young readers with a great deal to think about. Most children will know of the Holocaust, but few will realise how many perished during Stalin's purges. This alone is a story worth telling. Cleverly though, The Road of Bones also makes its warnings contemporary, timeless even" * thebookbag.co.uk *
"Beneath its cold white cover a story of magnitude unfolds" -- Diane Samuels * Guardian *
