Boys Don't Cry

By Malorie Blackman

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ISBN: 9780385604796
Themes: realistic fiction young adult Drama Grief Family Mental Health

Preface

Big Boys Don’t Cry is about a 17 year old boy called Dante who is anxiously waiting for the postman to come with his A level results. He has big plans to go to university and become a journalist.

Whilst he is waiting his ex-girlfriend comes to visit him with a baby. She says she has been away staying with her aunt and is just passing through. Dante doesn’t understand why she is there to see him and is horrified when she tells him that baby Emma is her baby.

Dante is even more horrified when Mel eventually tells him that he is the father.

When she leaves Emma with him to go to the shops Dante paces anxiously for her to come back until he gets a phone call from her to say she isn’t coming back, she can’t cope and is worried what she might do to her.