Encounters - Jason Wallace 电子书mobi+epub
Product details
Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 and up
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Andersen Press (June 27, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1783445289
ISBN-13: 978-1783445288
Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 & longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2018
Inspired by true accounts, this is the long-awaited new novel from Costa-award-winner Jason Wallace. A group of children claim they've witnessed an alien landing. Is it just mass hysteria? Or did something really happen that day?
Encounters Hardcover – International Edition, June 27, 2017
by Jason Wallace (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Encounters-Jason-Wallace/dp/1783445289
Product details
Age Range: 12 and up
Grade Level: 7 and up
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Andersen Press (June 27, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1783445289
ISBN-13: 978-1783445288
Zimbabwe, 1994. A group of children spot peculiar lights in the sky over the grounds of their school.
From this moment on, six young people's lives are changed forever.
Gary hides the anguish he feels now his mum's left, acting out in fury and hatred. Chloe has no words for the thing she fears most every day. Karl is the headmaster's son, now fallen from grace. Tendai knows he can never live up to his grieving father's ideals. And Sixpence watches all, knowing he'll never be like these other children. All of them have seen something they can't explain.
In amongst these tangled, tortured lives, comes a group of psychologists to verify the spookily similar claims of every witness. Their daughter, Holly, can tell there's more to it than aliens or mass hysteria – can she reveal the dark truths that haunt them?
Inspired by true accounts, this is the long-awaited new novel from Costa-award-winner Jason Wallace
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Ingeniously constructed, and as transfixing as the sighting of a UFO" -- Nicolette Jones * Sunday Times *
"A stunning new novel from a powerful and original writer" -- Tim Bowler
"A demanding read with many rewards... this novel reflects an exploratory mind, uncompromising yet respectful towards his readers' capacity for agile responses" * Books for Keeps *
"A thought-provoking book which deals honestly with some important issues including child abuse, bullying and verbal abuse... it impresses on every young person the importance of speaking up, and on every adult, the need to listen and support" * Carousel *
"Magnetic, haunting, and richly rewarding." -- Joanne Owen * Lovereading4Kids *
"Unique and outstanding" * Shift Zine * "Exquisite... An absorbing novel, absolutely packed full of emotion" * Askews & Holts Library Services *
"Rewarding and very skilfully written story" * Armadillo Magazine *
"A story of layers and discovery... full of ideas of abuse and trauma and inequality. It has left me thoughtful and wiser and glad that I gave it the time it deserved." * Rhino Reads blog *
"One of the most unique books I have ever read" -- Natalie Hunter, age 15 * for lovereading4Kids.co.uk *
About the Author
Jason Wallace is related to Tolkien and a descendant of one of the first International English cricketers, and also of the world-renowned Victorian circus owner "Lord" George Sanger. He was born in Cheltenham in 1969 but moved to London after his parents split up. Aged 12 his life was turned upside down when his mother remarried and the family emigrated to Zimbabwe. It was this experience in a tough boarding school during the aftermath of the war for independence that forms the foundation of his incredible first novel, Out of Shadows. And he did actually meet Robert Mugabe when he visited his school.
Jason is currently a web designer, living in South West London with his partner and son..
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