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Roar
Mann, Manjeet2025
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Total copies: 3
Rizu lives a comfortable life in the gated middle class suburbs of Delhi; her biggest worries are getting her homework done and keeping up with the mean girls at school. That is, until she's accused of being a witch and the hysteria that follows triggers a chain reaction. Alone and fearing for her life, Rizu runs away and joins a group of pink sari wearing, stick wielding women, known for their revenge vigilantism. Together they can help Rizu take back her life and seek justice against those who wronged her.Because sometimes you have to run through the streets and ROAR.
Main title:
Roar / Manjeet Mann.
Author:
Mann, Manjeet, author
Work:
Edition:
Original.
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2025.
Collation:
393 p. : 198 x 129 mm. 286 gm.
Audience:
Teenage.Reading grade level: 10-12.Interest age level: 12-16.Interest grade level: KS3 KS4.
Biography/History:
Manjeet Mann is a multi-award winning children's author, actress, playwright and screenwriter. Her debut YA novel RUN, REBEL was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2021 and won the CILIP Carnegie Shadowers Choice Award, The UKLA Award, Diverse Book Award and Sheffield Children's Book Award. It was also a Guardian best book of 2020. Her second novel THE CROSSING won The Costa Children's Book Award. Manjeet is also the founder of Run the World - a not for profit that uses sport and theatre as a means to empower women and girls.
ISBN:
9780241647622 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
YA
Language:
English
Subject:
Delhi (India)-FictionIndia-FictionRevenge-FictionWitches-FictionChildren's / Teenage fiction: General fictionIndiaNew DelhiInterest age: from c 12 yearsChildren’s / Teenage social topics: Identity / belongingChildren’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying, violence, abuse and peer pressureGeneral fiction (Children's / Teenage)Older Teenage FictionGeneral Stories
BRN:
938978