A Map of Nowhere

This is a fictional book and told by one of the main characters in the story, Nick Miller. Therefore, it is written in first person.Nick is a teenage boy of, in my opinion, the age of 15-16. He is a normal school boy who enjoys messing around with his friends and particularly likes any games which involve adventure or any kind of role-playing activities. He always wants to be `as cool as' his elder brother and his mates. When the author is making Nick talk, for example, she uses "I dunno"; instead of "I do not know".Another main character is another teenage Fifth Former named Joseph Fisher. He is more of a loner, but also has lots of interest in games. He appears to be a good, honest boy, who does things such as playing and bathing his younger brother. He is also quite practical like, for example, mending his bike and cooking dinner for everyone. A minor character in the story is Terry; he is the elder brother of Nick and belongs to a biker gang. He thinks it is cool to be rude and aggressive. He definitely deals in illegal activities such as robbing shops.Another minor character in the story is the girlfriend of Terry, Donna. She has a sharp-sounding sarcastic voice and has her own motorbike. She laughs rudely at what other people say in a `barking' sort of way. She seems as if she is angry with life.The third minor character is Ruth, Joseph's elder sister. She is intelligent, quiet and softly-spoken and was always say "Yes", instead of "Yeah" in the book. Much like the rest of her family, she is quite religious.The Fisher family are very poor but honest and the Millar family have different morals. For example, the parents know that Terry is probably a thief but they do not want to admit it to themselves.On the night of the raid of Joe's family's shop the family are all supposed to be out at Granny's house and because Nick gave the gang the information they wanted he was allowed to ride behind one of the bikers. The bikers took the money and wrecked the store but they left Nick behind hiding in the shop. He was amazed to see Joe setting light to the shop and could not believe he would do such a thing.At the end of the story, Nick realised he has been set up all along by Joe and Ruth. They wanted their parents to get the insurance money from the burning down of the shop and to blame the fire on Nick's brother's gang. Eventually, everybody does the right thing by owning up about their part of the story.In my opinion, I thoroughly enjoyed this book as I always wanted to know what was going to happen next. Because of the fact that the book is set in the present day, it was easy for me to understand the setting and relate to the boys as they were similar ages to me. It is very well written; therefore I felt that I `knew' the boys quite well and I thought it made you think about the things that are right and wrong in the world today. I definitely prefer this type of book as it is not fantasy but about real life issues. Because the book has lots of dia

I really liked this book about Nick. One day he finds a wallet in his bag and he returns it to the rightfull owner. There he starts playing roleplaying games whit the brother and sister, but Nick's older brother wants him to be in his criminal gang. I can really recomend this book if you like different books.