GCSE Study Guide: My Name is Leon
Will be published approx. on 6. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-241-77715-2 (ISBN)
Description
Suitable for GCSE Grades 1-9.
AQA exam board.
Learn from the best with Penguin's Study Guide for My Name is Leon.
Get to grips with every chapter - clear summaries help you understand the text inside out.
Master what matters - explore context, themes, language, plot and characters with expert insight.
Revise smarter, not harder - boost your confidence with step-by-step essay support.
Test yourself - practise with exam-style questions to sharpen your skills.
See what top answers look like - sample answers show exactly what it takes to hit grades 4-9.
Quote it right - packed with key quotes to use in your essays.
Discover more - watch exclusive author videos that bring the text's ideas and background to life.
AQA exam board.
Learn from the best with Penguin's Study Guide for My Name is Leon.
Get to grips with every chapter - clear summaries help you understand the text inside out.
Master what matters - explore context, themes, language, plot and characters with expert insight.
Revise smarter, not harder - boost your confidence with step-by-step essay support.
Test yourself - practise with exam-style questions to sharpen your skills.
See what top answers look like - sample answers show exactly what it takes to hit grades 4-9.
Quote it right - packed with key quotes to use in your essays.
Discover more - watch exclusive author videos that bring the text's ideas and background to life.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Young adult
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 14 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-77715-2 (9780241777152)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Kit de Waal
GCSE Study Guide: My Name is Leon
E-Book
approx. 08/2026
Penguin Books Ltd
€7.99
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Person
Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the 60's and 70's. Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was longlisted for the Women's Prize and her young adult novel Becoming Dinah is shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020. She also crowdfunded and edited an anthology of working class memoir, Common People, which was published in 2018. Kit was named the FutureBook Person of the Year in 2019.