# The Knife That Killed Me

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- Authors: [Anthony McGowan](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-mcgowan)
- Publisher: definitions_young_adult
- ISBN: 978-18-6230-606-6
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2008-04-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Anthony McGowan is the Carnegie Medal 2020 winning author of Lark . He is coming to kill me. Now would be a good time to run. I cannot run. I am too afraid to run. Paul Varderman could be at any normal school - bullies, girls and annoying teachers are just a part of life. Unfortunately 'normal' doesn't apply when it comes to the school's most evil bully, Roth, a twisted and threatening thug with an agenda quite unlike anyone else. When Paul ends up delivering a message from Roth to the leader of a gang at a nearby school, it fuels a rivalry with immediate consequences. Paul attempts to distance himself from the feud, but when Roth hands him a knife it both empowers him and scares him at the same time . . . This thought-provoking and original novel highlights the terrible consequences of peer pressure and violence, and casts a spotlight on the worrying rise in knife crime among teenagers.