Looking for JJ
by Anne Cassidy
When a 10-year-old girl kills her best friend, she is convicted of manslaughter and locked away. Seven years later she is released on licence with a new identity.
In this brave and intelligent novel, Anne Cassidy explores a range of themes, questioning everything from the ethics of tabloid journalism to the outcome of ineffectual parenting.
The book asks more questions than it answers and suggests that in some circumstances there is no 'right' or 'wrong', merely 'consequences'. Should our sympathy lie with the killer as she is relentlessly pursued by the press, hungry for a story, or with the victim and her family in a society desperate for justice?
This is a brilliant and disturbing piece of writing that looks behind the headlines and forces the reader to question some of their attitudes to a number of contemporary issues.
Publisher: Scholastic
What you thought
i loved this book sooooooooooo much i couldn't stop reading. i even cryed in some parts, and i loved finding out what happened!
I loved this book - it kept me reading without wanting to stop. I loved every single page of it!
I think the book is a really entertaining and is a really interesting book to read, the way the writer writes the story is a moving experience for the young people <3 i loved reading it
