Driver's Dead
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BfK No. 98 - May 1996
Cover Story
Our illustration this month is from Going to Playschool by Sarah Garland. Sarah Garland is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare. We are grateful to Bodley Head and Puffin Books for their help in producing this cover.
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Driver's Dead
(Scholastic Point)
978-0590133463, RRP £3.99, Hardcover
10-14 Middle/Secondary
Kirsten is new in town but soon becomes acquainted with Maria, Rob, Virgil and the ghost of Nguyen Trang, killed in a car crash and attached to Earth by his restless search for a locket containing a photograph of his parents. The connection between Nguyen, Virgil, Rob and the alcoholic ex-Marine driving instructor, Mr Busk, becomes clearer only with agonising slowness. This is over-long, over-written and, sadly, probably irresistible to Year 8/9 and above.
