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Bad Machinery Volume 1 - Pocket Edition John Allison

Bad Machinery Volume 1 - Pocket Edition By John Allison

Bad Machinery Volume 1 - Pocket Edition by John Allison

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Introduces readers to Jack, Linton, Sonny, Shauna, Charlotte, and Mildred: six kids navigating the treacherous waters of school and adolescence while also exploring the strange mysteries that abound in their peculiar English town of Tackleford.

Bad Machinery Volume 1 - Pocket Edition Summary

Bad Machinery Volume 1 - Pocket Edition by John Allison

The first volume of the beloved Bad Machinery series, now at a new size and $10 introductory price!

The Case of the Team Spirit introduces readers to Jack, Linton, Sonny, Shauna, Charlotte, and Mildred: six kids navigating the treacherous waters of school and adolescence while also exploring the strange mysteries that abound in their peculiar English town of Tackleford.

Jack, Linton, and Sonny look for cures to their football club's unexplainable woes, while Shauna, Charlotte, and Mildred try to find a way for compassion and justice to triumph in the face of die-hard sports fanaticism. But all of them should probably be more concerned with keeping on the good side of their history teacher, Mr. Bough. That is, if he has a good side...

Bad Machinery Volume 1 - Pocket Edition Reviews

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) - Allison is a triple threat: he plots deftly, draws confidently, and writes dead-on adolescent dialogue. Set in a grammar school in a British working-class community, this first book in his Bad Machinery series--originally published as a webcomic--has three earnest boys wing against three sharp-tongued girls to solve mysteries. The framing story concerns a Russian owner of a U.K. football (soccer) team trying to bully an elderly homeowner to sell her house; as the title hints, supernatural elements surface, too. There's plenty of cynical commentary about British consumer culture, and the students' sardonic banter provides a constant obbligato. About her mother's boyfriend's Velvet Underground albums, Shauna yawns, It's nice that you gave some money to people just playing music for the first time. Allison's adults are sympathetically drawn, too--even the archvillain has a human side. A wry glossary defines British terms (Nuffink: The way you say 'nothing' if you were dragged up rather than brought up), but can't begin to illuminate the arcane mysteries of the British football-industrial complex; readers are on their own there. Dark, fast-paced, and riotously funny entertainment. Ages 10-up. (Mar.)

Additional information

GOR009252193
9781620103876
1620103877
Bad Machinery Volume 1 - Pocket Edition by John Allison
John Allison
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oni Press,US
20170328
136
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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