Tyro

By David McRobbie

Subjects: Child and youth fiction, Apprentices, Romance, Bullying, Docks, Fiction, Waterfronts

Description: In 1953 in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Andrew is eager to begin his apprenticeship as a ship's engineer at the Dalrossan Dockyard but soon realizes that his new workplace is full of unwritten rules and dangerous undercurrents and that he cannot tell his friends from his enemies.