Came Back to Show You I Could Fly

by Robin Klein

Book Overview

An unlikely friendship between a young boy named Seymour and an older girl named Angie shows the human side of addiction in this winner of the CBCA Book of the Year 1990 and the Human Rights Award for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670829013
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic,Brilliant,Deserved its' reward

I read this book some years back but i thought it was fantastic.A little boy makes friends with a teenage girl who has a terrible secret.

Came back to show you I could fly by Robin Klein

The novel is about a boy named Seymour, who stays with a fussy old guardian who wont let him out, worried his father might take him away. By chance one day he left the house and met a young girl called Angie, who lives in a messy little flat, renting from an old women. Angie keeps Seymour company by taking him to different places around the suburbs, going shopping and catching trams from here to there. With her little 'so called brother' nagging her to do the right things. But what Seymour dosent know is that Angie is taking drugs.

Great book with hard hitting reality

Came Back To Show You I Could Fly is about an eleven year old boy named Seymour who meets Angie an older avdenturous drug addict, but Seymour does not know this. She is in a great deal of debt to drug dealers and have been dissowned by her family. Seymour too, is having family problems. This is a great book for readers 12 years and onwards.