Thief! by Malorie Blackman

The first book I ever picked up by Malorie Blackman was not like most people who usually have read the Noughts and Crosses series. Instead, I read Boys Don't Cry and I was hooked into reading her books that way.

In this book, we meet Lydia who is in a new school and unsure whether to fit in, which any teen wants, but means risking getting into trouble as the group she wants to join requires her to steal to get in. Immediately I didn't like the character of Anne who is a bully towards Lydia as she is a tgret to Anne and her best friends, Frankie's friendship.

After a lot of action I'm not going to spoil here for you, we find ourselves in an almost sc-fi, dystopian event of what has become of the town, the group of children Lydia wanted to fit in with and what happened to Lydia and her family after the main events of the book.

Overall Malorie explores the events of peer pressure and fitting in extremely well and shows us how events can make life altering decisions for us and how every action we take sets off a trail of future events.