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A kestrel for a knave

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Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say. He is part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside world. He hates and he is hated. His family and friends are mean and tough and they're sure he's going to end up in big trouble. But Billy knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he knows about animals. His only companion is his kestrel hawk, trained from the nest and like himself, with the will to destroy or be destroyed

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A kestrel for a knave, Barry Hines

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1969
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Title
A kestrel for a knave
Language
English
Publisher
Penguin Books
Released
1969
Format
Paperback
Pages
160
ISBN10
0140029524
ISBN13
9780140029529
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4.05 out of 5
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Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say. He is part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside world. He hates and he is hated. His family and friends are mean and tough and they're sure he's going to end up in big trouble. But Billy knows two things about his own world. He'll never work down the mines and he knows about animals. His only companion is his kestrel hawk, trained from the nest and like himself, with the will to destroy or be destroyed