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by Joan Lingard

ISBN: 0140371753
ISBN13: 978-0140371758
Language: English
Publisher: Puffin (June 6, 1995)
Subategory: For Kids

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Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was eighteen

Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was eighteen. She began to write when she was eleven years old and always wanted to be a writer. She is particularly well-known for the Kevin and Sadie titles, beginning with THE TWELFTH DAY OF JULY, which are set against the troubled background of Ireland. Joan was given an MBE for distinguished service to children's literature. She lives in Edinburgh.

Twelfth Day Of July (Paperback). Published December 6th 1988 by Puffin. Paperback, 128 pages. Published September 28th 1972 by Dutton Childrens Books. Author(s): Joan Lingard. ISBN: 0140325069 (ISBN13: 9780140325065). Hardcover, 158 pages. ISBN: 0840762542 (ISBN13: 9780840762542).

That was a real compliment because I was engrossed from the first line and read it again in one night.

Items related to Twelfth Day of July (Puffin Teenage Fiction). This is the first of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books. Joan Lingard Twelfth Day of July (Puffin Teenage Fiction). ISBN 13: 9780140371758. About the Author: Joan Lingard was born in Edinburgh and grew up in Belfast where she lived until she was eighteen.

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Her first children"s novel was The Twelfth Day of July (the first of the five Kevin and Sadie books) in 1970. Tug of War has also received great success: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1989, The Federation of Children"s Book Group Award 1989, runner up in the Lancashire Children"s Book Club of the year 1990 and shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award. 71753/?tag prabook0b-20. She is probably most famous for the teenage-aimed Kevin and Sadie series, which have sold over one million copies and have been reprinted many times since.

The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults

This book can be found in: Children's & Teenage Fiction Romance Children's & Teenage Teen & young adult. The Twelfth Day of July: A Kevin and Sadie Story - The Originals (Paperback). Joan Lingard (author). The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults. From political awakening, war and unrequited love to addiction, teenage pregnancy and nuclear holocaust, The Originals confront big issues and articulate difficult truths.

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The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It starts with a dare - kids fooling around - but soon becomes something dangerous. Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever. But will the world around them change too? The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults.

Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It starts with a dare - kids fooling around - but soon becomes something dangerous. Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever. But will the world around them change too? The first of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie books.

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Zulkigis

I love this series so much, it's just so gripping. I read the first 3 stories in a week. I would definitely recommend this novel to anyone (young or old) that is looking for something exciting, adventurous and (slighty) romantic.

Contancia

This series is a favorite of mine, and now I have passed it on to my children, who also love it.

Gugrel

Really happy to find this book!

Tyler Is Not Here

It's about kids, written for kids (early teens), but good for anyone interested in understanding Northern Ireland during the "troubles". Joan Lingard writes as one who grew up in Belfast. Her characters are authentic natives from both sides of the divide, kids, their parents, their neighbours, streets lined with terrace houses. Going by the copyright date, it's the 1960s, probably a few years before the setting of Gerald Seymour's Harry's Game (which I've also reviewed), and before Bloody Sunday. Neither the IRA nor any Protestant paramilitaries figure in the story, only the two neighbourhoods, probably somewhere in West Belfast. It's enough that it takes place during the few days leading up to the most controversial date in the Irish calendar -- hence, the title.

On the Protestant side, Sadie and her brother, Tommy, are getting ready for the big day, practicing to march in the parade, and decorating their street. Sadie is the feisty fireball, the one who rallies the neighbourhood kids to action, sometimes getting into a spot of trouble. Over on the Catholic side, live Keven and his sister Brede. Keven gets restless when things are too quiet, which things are on their side of the divide. Brede prefers to read her books and stay out of trouble.

The ball gets rolling as Keven and his friend Brian decide to sneak into the Protestant neighbourhood in middle of the night, and deface a mural of "King Billy" -- as William of Orange is fondly called by the "Prods". Sadie catches them in the act, and, being the sprinter that she is, catches up with him and tackles him to the ground; their first meeting. After that, there's the revenge attack, where Sadie and Keven meet again. So, it goes on, tit-for-tat. Things get out of hand, but somewhere along the way, someone plants the seed -- a cup of tea, actually -- that germinates and blossoms when the situation is at its most intense, and something happens that no one could have predicted.

Joan Lingard brings it all together in a believable way. It's not forced, it's not goody-goody "let's-be-friends"; it's people with a history of hatred, but somehow with the right mixture, they're forced to see one-another's humanity.

It's the first in the series of "Keven and Sadie" books. I might read another one...

Uylo

This is a book for young teenagers, set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland just before the outbreak of the Troubles.

The plot is simple: a feisty Catholic boy and a feisty Protestant girl, living in inner-city Belfast neighbourhoods separated only by a main road, lead alternate mischief-making expeditions into each other's territory until things get out of hand and a sacrifice, Romeo and Juliet style, is required to bring the sides back to their senses. The characterization is a bit perfunctory (Kevin is feisty; Sadie, on the other hand, is feisty) but the setting, leading up to the Twelfth, is well drawn. The book was written in 1970 and is unobtrusively matter-of-fact about being poor at the time: no-one has a phone, cars break down all the time, and chip pan fires play a prominent role. The police are not reacted to in an openly sectarian way, as you imagine they would have been if the book had been written only a few years later, but it's noticeable that the Catholic parents are spoiling for a fight with them more than the Protestant parents are. Missing from the book's even-handedness is any strong sense of the real asymmetry of rhetoric that you experience on the ground (Catholics are inferior, Protestants are oppressive): actions on one side are almost exactly mirrored on the other, and when the symmetry is broken it's done against type (the Catholic girl is painstaking, the Protestant girl is careless). The best parts are the set pieces: a trip to the zoo, a trip to the beach, and especially the climactic scene where, without it ever having been explicitly stated, everyone becomes aware that a big fight's coming up.