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Steady for This

By Nathanael Lessore

Meet MC Growls in this laugh-out-loud, Carnegie-shortlisted teen comedy with heart!

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Teen
Published: 27/04/2023
ISBN number: 9781471413223
Price: £7.99
Imprint: Hot Key Books
Length: 268 pages
Edition: Paperback
Genre: Comedy Music

Steady for This

By Nathanael Lessore

Buy this title

Paperback

Details

Teen
Published: 27/04/2023
ISBN number: 9781471413223
Price: £7.99
Imprint: Hot Key Books
Length: 268 pages
Edition: Paperback
Genre: Comedy Music

Meet MC Growls in this laugh-out-loud, Carnegie-shortlisted teen comedy with heart!

Crammed with outrageously hilarious wordplay, Lessore's exuberant debut for 12+ is a southeast London celebration of teen awkwardness, creativity and silly joy.
The Guardian
Funny, original and heart-warming.
The Times
Raw, real, fun and bold; I loved every word. This blazing debut is both laugh-out-loud and intensely moving.
Polly Ho-Yen, author of BOY IN THE TOWER

MEET MC GROWLS, WANNABE RAPPER AND STAR OF THE SHOW IN THIS HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING TEEN COMEDY!

Shaun (aka MC Growls) is ready to drop his best bars and smash the competition at Raptology. That way, he’s convinced Tanisha, his crush, will finally give him a chance.

But when a livestream practice goes epically wrong, Growls’s dirty laundry is literally exposed. He’s finally achieved his dreams of going viral – not in the good way.

Now Tanisha won’t look at him, he’s the joke of the school and there’s no way he can show his face at the competition. Will he ever catch a break?

Then a new girl on the block appears who might be just the friend Growls needs. Especially when she points out that Raptology could be the answer to his problems after all. . .

STEP UP TO THE MIC! It’s MC Growls and he’s ready for this. He’s steady for this. It’s comeback season and they call him comeback king for a reason.

Authors

Nathanael Lessore

Nathanael Lessore was born in Camberwell, South East London, as one of eight children to French and Madagascan parents. Although he has spent most of his life in Peckham, Nathanael has also lived in Paris, Strasbourg and Singapore. Nathanael can run 100 metres in under 10 minutes and has trouble finding sunglasses that frame his face properly. His debut book Steady For This was shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024 and won the Branford Boase Award 2024. He is also the author of King of Nothing, and writes stories that show his South East London childhood as the funny, warm, adventurous world that wasn’t always represented as such.