Toby Jenkins, a quiet, homesick boy, always hates going back to his boarding school at the start of term. This term he forms a friendship with a new boy, Simon Christopher, who confides a great secret in him. Simon tells Toby he is the next Jesus and Toby becomes his first disciple. Whether Simon is who he says or not, he instils in his friends a belief in themselves and they find life suddenly begins to go their way. Then things start to turn ugly. There has always been rivalry between the 'toffs' at school and the 'oiks' in the village, and this escalates into open fighting. Simon and his disciples vow to end the violence, and finally succeed, but at a terrible price. In powerful closing scenes, Simon's claim to be Christ is discovered by the staff, he is expelled and the group is humiliated before their school. In a sudden final twist, we learn just as Simon Christopher leaves that a girl he couldn't seem to heal has just begun to get better.
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The start of a new term rekindles Toby's feelings of homesickness but this term something is different.

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ISBN
9780749746896
Publisert
2001-08-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Mammoth
Vekt
139 gr
Høyde
199 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
02, JC
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
187

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