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I really, really, really (lots of reallys and then some more reallys) enjoyed Asboville. It's direct, palpably honest, sympathetic and entirely unpretentious. First novels are often self-conscious, as the writer begins to find a way to merge style with technique. Asboville doesn't have a trace of that. Rhodes is writing about what he knows and isn't afraid to present it, plain and unvarnished. You can't ask more from a first time novelist than that.

Another book, this time very definitely for teens, about the perils of demonising groups of people, is [[Refugee Boy]] by Benjamin Zephaniah.