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Gillian Cross

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Tightrope is a children's novel by Gillian Cross, published in 1999. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. It is about a teen girl named Ashley who receives A+'s in school and helps her sick mother through the day. However, she leads a double life. Her other name is Cindy and Cindy likes to sneak out and spray …

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"There are guns and bandits in this story. And supermodels. And there's drought and starvation too.Are you wondering how they can all come together? Well, that's how life is these days. Things don't happen neatly, in separate little places. We're all caught by the great spider's web of media that spans the …

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Wolf is a young-adult novel by Gillian Cross, published by Oxford in 1990. Set in London, it features communal living, terrorism, and wolves and a teenage girl in relation to her mother, father, and paternal grandmother. Cross won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British …