01818nam a22002777a 4500 5305 FISKH 20241125142059.0 241125b cb ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781509842254 FISKH eng FISKH FISKH 823.92 Slater, Kim 928 Miles from Home / by Kim Slater First published 2017 London : Macmillan Children's Books ; 2017 . 317 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm . S Fourteen year old Calum Brooks has big dreams. One day he'll escape this boring life and write movies, proper ones, with massive budgets and A-list stars. For now though, he's stuck coping alone while his dad works away, writing scripts in his head and trying to stay 'in' with his gang of mates at school, who don't like new kids, especially foreign ones.But when his father invites his new Polish girlfriend and her son, Sergi, to move in, Calum's life is turned upside down. He's actually sharing a room with 'the enemy'! How's he going to explain that to his mates? Yet when Calum is knocked down in a hit-and-run and breaks both legs, everything changes. Trapped at home, Calum and Sergi slowly start to understand each other, and even work together to investigate a series of break-ins at the local community centre. But Calum can't help feeling that Sergei's hiding something. Is he really trying to help, or to cover up his own involvement in the crime?928 Miles from Home is a powerful new story from the multi-award-winning author of Smart and A Seven-Letter Word, Kim Slater. 790 Lexile estimate S Raz-Plus home Fiction big dream Fiction ddc BK 0 5305 5305 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC 002 002 SBS 2024-11-25 2 SLA 823.92 FISSE03177 2025-09-11 09:54:31 2025-08-20 2024-11-25 BK