I Predict a Riot
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Explosive, emotional drama from the author of We Can Be Heroes, perfect for fans of Meg Rosoff and Annabel Pitcher.Welcome to Coronation Road – a kaleidoscope of clashing cultures and parallel lives. There's Maggie and her politician mum in their big house. There's Tokes and his mum in a tiny bedsit, running from trouble. And there's the ruthless Starfish gang, breeding fear through the neighbourhood.Amateur film-maker Maggie prefers to watch life through the lens of her camera. In Tokes, she finds a great subject for her new film. And when violence erupts, led by the Starfish gang, Maggie has the perfect backdrop. But as the world explodes around her, Maggie can't hide behind the lens anymore …Catherine Bruton is a major voice in young adult fiction, her prose was described by the Sunday Times as witty, wise and compelling. Readers who enjoyed Robin Talley's Lies We Tell Ourselves will be enthralled by this novel about social and racial tensions, inspired by the London riots.Look out for Catherine's other books:We Can Be HeroesPopAfter graduating from the University of Oxford, Catherine Bruton began her career as an English teacher and later went on to write feature articles for The Times and other publications. I Predict a Riot is her third novel for Egmont, following We Can Be Heroes and Pop!, which received high acclaim. Catherine lives near Bath with her husband and two children.
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Catherine Bruton. I Predict a Riot
CONTENTS
SCENE 1: MAGGIE’S HOUSE, BY THE SEA
SCENE 2: A PARK IN SOUTH LONDON
SCENE 3: CORONATION ROAD LIBRARY
SCENE 4: OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY
SCENE 5: CORONATION ROAD
SCENE 6: BEHIND THE FISH FACTORY
SCENE 7: MAGGIE’S HOUSE
SCENE 8: OUTSIDE MAGGIE’S BEDROOM
SCENE 9: THE NEXT MORNING. CHOUDHARY’S ELECTRICAL STORE
SCENE 10: MAGGIE’S DEN
SCENE 11: OUTSIDE THE STARFISH PROJECT
SCENE 12: CORONATION ROAD
SCENE 13: OUTSIDE THE PICTURE GALLERY
SCENE 14: MAGGIE’S BEDROOM
SCENE 15: MAGGIE’S DEN
SCENE 16: THE LOUNGE IN MAGGIE’S HOUSE
SCENE 17: TOKES’S BEDSIT
SCENE 18: CORONATION ROAD
SCENE 19: CORONATION ROAD. DUSK
SCENE 20: CORONATION ROAD. EVENING
SCENE 21: CORONATION ROAD. THE NEXT DAY
SCENE 22: THE LOUNGE IN MAGGIE’S HOUSE
SCENE 23: BEHIND THE FISH FACTORY
SCENE 24: THE PARK
SCENE 25: THE PARK. MOMENTS LATER
SCENE 26: THE PARK, A FEW MINUTES LATER
SCENE 27: A HOUSE BY THE SEA. ONE YEAR LATER
SCENE 28: THE BEACH
Acknowledgements
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For all my Peckham people, Clare, Howard, Nye, Nicola, James, Jo, Millie, Jonny, Joe and Elsie the Twinkle, with love.
Title page
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When you watch that bit of film you can tell – just like everyone in the park could tell – that the New Kid was dead meat. A marked man. Kaboom.
My toes wiggled uncomfortably. ‘Just stuff around here. The Coronation Road, the Starfish Estate. Inner-city kids living in parallel universes. That kind of thing.’
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