Just in Case Award-winning by Meg Rosoff (author) (UK edition)

If fate is out to get you, can you outrun it? How fast and how far will you go? That’s the decision a 15-year-old boy must make in this daring and dazzlingly fresh new book. When David changes his name to Justin, he wants to erase everything: his past, his looks and his life. Disguised by his new identity, Justin can do almost anything he likes – but can he dodge what destiny holds in store? The sensational talent that brought us How I Live Now returns with a knock-out second novel, exploring themes of fate and identity against the urban backdrop of Luton town.

Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2007.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141318066

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Date published

June 7th, 2007

Other details

256 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff was born in 1956 in Boston, USA. She studied at Harvard University and left for England in 1977 to enter St Martin’s School of Art, later returning to finish her degree at Harvard. She worked in New York City for 10 years in publishing and advertising, before moving to England.

She has written four novels for teenagers, as well as several picture books. Her first novel, How I Live Now, was published to great acclaim in 2004, winning the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for both the Whibread Children’s Book Award and the Orange First Novel Prize.

Her second novel, Just in Case (2006), about a hunted 15-year-old boy, won the 2007 Carnegie Medal, and her third, What I Was was also shortlisted for several major awards. Her latest book, The Bride’s Farewell is her first historical novel, telling the tale of a nineteenth century girl who flees on the morning of her wedding.