Title: Thief
Author: Malorie Blackman
This book is probably one of the strangest one's I've ever read. It starts out with a girl Lydia whose family has just moved out of London city and into a small country town. She becomes best friends with another girl called Frankie, but Frankie's old best friend Ann does not like this at all. She tells Lydia that if she wants to become a part of their group, she has to steal a trophy from the school's trophy case. At the last second, Lydia chickens out of stealing the trophy, but when she comes to school the next day, she is in BIG trouble, and her locker is searched. The trophy was in her locker this whole time. Lydia becomes a pariah and everyone calls her a thief and no one wants to be her friend anymore. The last straw is when Frankie is trying to talk to her while they are walking down the street, slips on some ice, and gets hit by a truck. Lydia decides to run away. She runs to the moors, gets caught up in a thunderstorm, and is somehow transported to the future. The future is horrible. She learns that her younger brother is the owner of the town and that he makes all the townspeople's lives (Lydia's now adult classmates) miserable. Everyone hates him, and Lydia discovers that the reason why he is so terrible to them all is because of what they did to her. She meets herself from the future, and discovers that she has turned into this horrible evil person. She then goes back into a thunderstorm and gets transported to her own time, where she and Frankie make up a plan to make the whole school know that it was really Ann who stole the trophy and not Lydia.
This book was so weird! It started out like some realistic fiction novel, and then turned suddenly turned all sci-fi. Since we'd read the play Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Black earlier this year, and my friends had gone on and on about how good the book Noughts and Crosses was, I thought I was in for a big treat when started to read it. However, it seemed more like something my sister would like because the language used in it and its storyline seemed to me to be for younger children. Thief really reminded me of "Back to the Future II," a movie where the main character is able to time travel and, when he realizes what the future holds, has to go back in time and fix what he did wrong. This novel was just so weird and strange and not what I expected that I would give it a 4 or maybe even a 3 on a scale of 1-5.
Author: Malorie Blackman
This book is probably one of the strangest one's I've ever read. It starts out with a girl Lydia whose family has just moved out of London city and into a small country town. She becomes best friends with another girl called Frankie, but Frankie's old best friend Ann does not like this at all. She tells Lydia that if she wants to become a part of their group, she has to steal a trophy from the school's trophy case. At the last second, Lydia chickens out of stealing the trophy, but when she comes to school the next day, she is in BIG trouble, and her locker is searched. The trophy was in her locker this whole time. Lydia becomes a pariah and everyone calls her a thief and no one wants to be her friend anymore. The last straw is when Frankie is trying to talk to her while they are walking down the street, slips on some ice, and gets hit by a truck. Lydia decides to run away. She runs to the moors, gets caught up in a thunderstorm, and is somehow transported to the future. The future is horrible. She learns that her younger brother is the owner of the town and that he makes all the townspeople's lives (Lydia's now adult classmates) miserable. Everyone hates him, and Lydia discovers that the reason why he is so terrible to them all is because of what they did to her. She meets herself from the future, and discovers that she has turned into this horrible evil person. She then goes back into a thunderstorm and gets transported to her own time, where she and Frankie make up a plan to make the whole school know that it was really Ann who stole the trophy and not Lydia. This book was so weird! It started out like some realistic fiction novel, and then turned suddenly turned all sci-fi. Since we'd read the play Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Black earlier this year, and my friends had gone on and on about how good the book Noughts and Crosses was, I thought I was in for a big treat when started to read it. However, it seemed more like something my sister would like because the language used in it and its storyline seemed to me to be for younger children. Thief really reminded me of "Back to the Future II," a movie where the main character is able to time travel and, when he realizes what the future holds, has to go back in time and fix what he did wrong. This novel was just so weird and strange and not what I expected that I would give it a 4 or maybe even a 3 on a scale of 1-5.
is this the book I lent you? So you didnt like it :) i really liked it. But your right its definetly a 'different' type of book.
ReplyDeleteThis book sounds strange :/ I like how you shared your opinion though. It reminds me of one of those animated series how one of the characters gets a glance at the future and a chance to change it.
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