Ostrich Boys
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407046846
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Ostrich Boys

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1 Sep 2010
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1 Sep 2008
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Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award.Ostrich Boys is an incredible story about loss and friendship - full of humour but packing a massive punch!

'It's not really kidnapping, is it? He'd have to be alive for it to be proper kidnapping.'

Kenny, Sim and Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross, they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries and Galloway. After a depressing and dispiriting funeral they feel taking Ross to Ross will be a fitting memorial for a 15 year-old boy who changed all their lives through his friendship. Little do they realise just how much Ross can still affect life for them even though he's now dead.

Drawing on personal experience Keith Gray has written an extraordinary novel about friendship, loss and suicide, and about the good things that may be waiting just out of sight around the corner . . .
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407046846
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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About the author

Keith Gray

Keith was born and brought up in Grimsby and knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. When he received 0% for his accountancy exams he decided to pursue his dream.

Since then, he has gone on to win the Angus Book Award and the silver medal in the Smarties Prize. He has twice been shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and was shortlisted for the Booktrust Teen Prize and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Rave reviews about his writing have appeared in every broadsheet. Keith was a judge for the Blue Peter Book Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Bookstrust Teen Prize and reviews regularly for the Guardian.

Keith is now a full-time writer living in Edinburgh.

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Praise for Ostrich Boys

A gripping tale of loss, guilt, revenge and redemption and contains touches of gallows humour that will be of particular appeal to the teen audience. Gray has managed to mainatin the high standard of his previous work and while this text does not alienate teenage girls. It will be of particular appeal to teenage boys

The School Librarian

An exceptionally involving and affecting novel

Books for Keeps

Funny, page-turning and profound

Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times

Gray, with excellent timing, keeps the plot light and humourous, despite dealing with suicide, loss of friendship and bullying

Daily Telegraph

One of the highlights of the year . . . Reminiscent of On the Road and Catcher in the Rye, this is a seminal book about modern youth . . . Pertinent and profound work, instantly worthy of the label "modern classic"

Jake Hope, The Bookseller