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The Terrorist - Caroline B Cooney

Description: ISBN 0590228544 / Author: Caroline B Cooney / Genre: Junior Books

Newest Review: ... sacrificing his own life to save those of the other travelers around him. The rest of the book focuses on Laura – ... more

... Billy’s older sister – as she tries to come to terms with her loss, and find answers to all the questions in her mind: Why that day? Why Billy? Was he a child picked at random, or was it planned? Is someone after the family? The children attended an international school in London. Many of their fellow pupils have diplomats and dignitaries as parents, but not the Williams family. Laura and Billy’s mum looks after them and the house, and their father is a factory manager. Hardly the type of people u...more

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The Terrorist - Caroline B Cooney: A Topical Terrorist Tale (714 words)
by - written on 03/04/03 (Very useful, 1606 readings)
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If 11 year old William Williams (known as Billy - not-surprising with a name like that) was an op writer, he’d probably have written about his experiences of living abroad. He did, you see. American by birth, he was shifted to London for a year due to his father’s job. Billy didn’t mind, though. He liked the excitement of it all – taking the tube to school each day, getting a paper round just like in the States, having his grandmother back home send him care packages of Oreos and other goodies for him to eat (if he was hungry or homesick) or sell to his school friends for a huge profit (if he was in business mode). Life was just fine and dandy ... Read the complete review