A beautiful collection of poems about the highs and lows of one week in a secondary school, where everything happens all at once.Winner of the 2019 CLiPPA award.Zooming in across our cast of characters, we share moments that span everything from hoping to make it to the end of the week, facing it, fitting in, finding friends and falling out, to loving lessons, losing it, and worrying, wearing it well and worshipping from afar.In Everything All At Once, Steven Camden's poems speak to the kaleidoscope of teen experience and life at secondary school.'All together. Same place.Same walls. Same space.Every emotionunder the sunFaith lost. Victories won.It doesn't stop. Until the bell.Now it's heavenNow it's hell.Who knows?Not meI just wrote what I can seeSo what's it about? Here's my responseIt's about everythingAll at once.'
This book has been graded for interest at 12 years.
This book is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed. This book was published in 2018 by Pan Macmillan .
You can find out more about Steven at www. facebook. com/stevencamdentheauthor and you can also follow him on twitter at @homeofpolar.
This book has the following chapters:
- Chapter - 1: Prologue
- Chapter - 2: First Day
- Chapter - 3: Morning State
- Chapter - 4: D 4 L (pt1)
- Chapter - 5: Outside French
- Chapter - 6: Double Agent
- Chapter - 7: Anyone
- Chapter - 8: Michael vs His Brain (again)
- Chapter - 9: Vending Machine
- Chapter - 10: D 4 L (pt2)
- Chapter - 11: It's complicated
- Chapter - 12: Science Block
- Chapter - 13: Dear Mom
- Chapter - 14: Good girl
- Chapter - 15: As I watch
- Chapter - 16: Fraud
- Chapter - 17: It Happened
- Chapter - 18: Mr Bailey
- Chapter - 19: Gazelle
- Chapter - 20: Lunch Line
- Chapter - 21: Belinda
- Chapter - 22: Fight
- Chapter - 23: Staffroom
- Chapter - 24: D 4 L (pt3)
- Chapter - 26: Goal
- Chapter - 27: New Guy
- Chapter - 28: Snow
- Chapter - 29 : Careers Advice
- Chapter - 30: Double Science
- Chapter - 31: Something Starts
- Chapter - 32: Real World
- Chapter - 33: Across a Room
- Chapter - 34: Cracks
- Chapter - 35: Those who can't
- Chapter - 36: Constructs
- Chapter - 37: D 4 L (pt4)
- Chapter - 38: HMS Big School
- Chapter - 39: Detention
- Chapter - 40: Like Minds
- Chapter - 41: Fresh Fish
- Chapter - 42: Parting Thought