Alex Jackson: Grommet

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Summary: A superbly written novel for teens
Review: Alex Jackson: Grommet by Pat Flynn is a superbly written novel for teens about Alex Jackson, a talented skateboarder who has to come to terms with a school bully, falling in love, and handling the social aspects of high school. Alex Jackson: Grommet is recommended as being an engagingly, deftly written story about handling common teenage trials.

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Summary: Alex Jackson: grommet
Review: Alex Jackson: grommet is about a 13-year-old skateboarder who lives in a tough suburb of Logan City, Australia. He is an ordinary boy with a wicked sense of humour-- and apart from his reputation as a skate-grom, does his best to fit in anonymously at his first year of high school.

Things change when he falls for the mysterious Becky Tonella and invokes the wrath of school tough-guy, Billy Johnstone. Through a mixture of luck and advice from his father, an ex-boxer, he manages to win both the fight and the girl. However, Billy swears revenge and Becky's life is slowly unravelling.

Pat Flynn understands what it is like to be a teenager and has produced a funny, fast-paced first novel. Short chapters and sentences that almost read themselves mean it won't scare away the slower readers. A real winner among 10-14 year-old boys, and girls.