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Teacher’s Dead by Benjamin Zephaniah


“Teacher’s Dead” is a book that as soon as you read the title, makes you want to read it. In my opinion, it is one of the most interesting and exciting books I have read in a while through the many twists and turns in the storyline. It wasn’t what I expected it to be as in the first paragraph the reader is told, who the murderers are and who has been killed but we are not told why. The reader then follows a teenage boy named Jackson, who was a witness, putting all the pieces together to try and find out why Mr Joseph was murdered. The author illustrates Jackson as the average teenager caught in a complicated situation. I think that the author has done this very well as there are very few authors that can accomplish this. I would recommend this book for both boys and girls that like detective books which are also quite humorous.
Sarah S3