Quarry is a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Ally Kennen

Ally Kennen

Ally Kennen is an award-winning British young adult and children's author.- Life :Ally Kennen grew up on a farm in Exmoor, England. Ally studied Archaeology and history at Birmingham University...

published in February 2011. Until the delivery date, the book was planned to be called "Rites", but on February 27th, 2010, the name was officially changed to "Quarry".

Plot

Scrappy, a 15-year-old boy, lives in a breaker's yard next to the motorway and is being sent crazy anonymous dares. Once he gets caught up in them, he finds he can't stop, no matter how much he wants to, and the last challenges send him to the very edge.