When Our Worlds Collided
When our Worlds Collided
When fourteen-year-old Shaq is stabbed outside of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, three teenagers from very different walks of life are unexpectedly brought together. What follows flips their worlds upside down and makes Chantelle, Jackson, and Marc question the deep-rooted prejudice and racism that exists within the police, the media, and the rest of society.
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Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize Older Readers Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Jhalak Children’s & Young Adult Prize 2021
Longlisted for the The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2021
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What do we think?
I really liked this book because it has a vivid rendering of race violence and people’s true life perspective of it.
My favourite book was When Our Worlds Collided. I think it addresses a very important topic but in a very good portrayal that is accurate and very emotional. The characters are very relatable and it feels very realistic and inclusive. It is so worrying to know that these things happen so close and probably even nearer, and I recommend anyone to read this, whoever you are and whatever genre you read, as the themes and ideas in these pages are a very important read for everyone.
My favourite book would be, When Our Worlds Collided because it shows shards of reality which show us what the world is really like, in the ways of discrimination. It presents how some people are discriminating against others just because of their race, even though they actually didn’t do anything wrong.