Caged

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<p><b>Carnegie Medal winner Theresa Breslin explores the dangerous world of cage-fighting in this dark and powerful new novel.</b></p><p>Escaping from a troubled home and struggling to survive on the streets, the abandoned tunnels of the London Underground are a perfect sanctuary for Kai. Along with other teenagers running from their pasts, he finds somewhere to belong in this strange community of outcasts.</p><p>But Kai is now facing a very different kind of fight. Every night, led by the enigmatic Spartacus, the runaways must become cage fighters, each fight broadcast to the outside world via YouTube. With pay-per-view profits racking up, Kai and his friends hope to be able to start a new life.</p><p>Yet treachery and danger are never far behind, and a new arrival threatens the order that Spartacus has worked so carefully to maintain. And then there is the looming finale, the last battle between Kai and his nemesis Leo: the Kill Fight . . .</p>

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<b>THERESA BRESLIN</b>is the Carnegie Medal winning author of over thirty books for children&young adults whose work has appeared on stage, radio and TV. Her books are hugely popular with young people, librarians and teachers.<i>Remembrance</i>, her top selling YA novel of youth in WW1, has now been reissued to include Book Notes.<i>The Dream Master</i>was shortlisted for the Children's Book Award.<i>Divided City</i>was shortlisted for ten book awards, winning two outright.

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