Realistic and helpful story about self-defence, Freya Moffat
Make a Hard Fist
Tina Shaw
OneTree House
2018
April 26, 2022
Make a Hard Fist by Tina Shaw is about a teenager called Lizzie, who starts getting creepy letters in the mail. One day, while on a run, she is attacked in a reserve. From then on, she must deal with her trauma, learning how to defend herself and the possibility that her attacker is still out to find her.
I think the aim of this book is to spread awareness of situations like Lizzie’s. Unfortunately, the world we live in today is full of regular teenagers like Lizzie who end up in these dangerous situations even though they’ve done nothing wrong. Read more
April, 2022
Melissa
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