Kick the Moon

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Muhammad Khan’s teenagers are blisteringly authentic with their street talk and casual nastiness to each other. Standing up to Imran puts Ilyas' family at risk, but it's time for him to be the superhero he draws in his comic-books, and go kick the moon. For a book that seems to be aimed at a young readership, I would want there to be a trigger warning. With family pressure forcing him to be a 'man', and push him towards his father's business, peer pressure, academic worries over exams, he is caught between worlds and ideologies, loyalties and desires. It’s more than just a guy in a gang, but just like any teenager he has a future hen he’s given the chances, the break that he needs too.

Read all Ten years ago, Gi Dong, Choi, the head of the school gang and Yeong Joon, Park, the shy but smart student set out for school excursion to Gyeongju. Do you think there is a lack of representation and if so what do you think the affect is on the younger generation? So firstly lets say that I'm probably not the target audience for this book but my oh my does it ever give an insight into the life of a school age teenager these days. His debut novel I Am Thunder won the Branford Boase First Novel Award, the 2018 Great Reads Award and a number of regional awards. There were stereotypes that showed a lot about what happens within families but dealing with it and how to fight back.Like his first book, I feel that many teenagers will relate to this and is a book I feel young boys should read. Ilyas’ story was interesting and different but I don’t think it lived up to the greatness of I Am Thunder. She not only understood Muzna - this character I was just as fiercely protective of as any of my real-life students - but she knew exactly how to present her to the world.

I adored Khan's first: it pulled no punches, showed the realities of how teenagers can get sucked into dangerous worlds, and the author's second does something similar, this time with a young Asian male.Sexism and homophobia are also discussed and addressed in the novel (although more could have been done with the latter), and gang culture is touched upon.

I really enjoyed the way the author incorporated slang into his debut novel but it felt incredibly overdone here to the point where almost everything about the book – from the characters to their relationships and the story – felt inauthentic and unrealistic. Il dépeint avec maîtrise les méfaits des mauvaises représentations et de l’impact direct de ces constructions issue de la société patriarcale dans laquelle nous vivons. Yet it is anti-individualism: yes, we might take ownership of our lives but that needs to include having the right people around us. The pacing was nice and fast, however, I didn’t find myself ever fully connecting with this book or connecting with these characters. Personally I’m not a fan of Birdi’s style, but I do like that it’s a British Asian artist and he seems like a lovely guy so fair play.Sharing the experience of bringing I am Thunder to publication with Lucy Pearse has been an unforgettable privilege. The book follows Ilyas, first with a moment in year six which changed his opinion on superheroes and then to year eleven where we see how he is now part of a gang. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Muhammad takes his inspiration from the children he teaches, as well as his own upbringing as a British-born Pakistani. Upon hearing about this book, I knew it was going to be one that I wanted to have a look at and I am so glad that I decided to give it a read.

Thank you to MyKindaBook (Macmillan Children’s Books) for sending me an e-copy in exchange for an honest review. That information alone made me disregard my dislike for Khan’s debut and give this one a shot, but I honestly couldn’t get to grips with this one. I loved the fact That Muhammad highlighted a lot of important issues within teenagers especially with what happens with teenage boys if an Asian background. Not only his writing but the feelings you have for the characters runs deep, their own voices coming through the pages, like Ilyas’s Amma, who really reminds me of my own mum and one particular character I simply admired was Ms Mungal – what an inspiration to her students, everyone needs like a teacher like to believe in you and to get you to express yourself.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The book did very well in covering so many important themes and topics from racism, sexism, religion, gang violence and revenge porn. The book doesn't seek to resolve the issue of bullying but it offers a tangible alternative of self-respect and if any young person is going through a similar experience of peer pressure etc, they might take comfort in reading Kick the Moon. Further to all of that, at the heart of this book is also a story of friendship and I cannot begin to express how much I love books about friendship. The only thing I struggled with - and it is defintely my age and not the author - is the street language/slang.