Sacrifice

#1 Chosen

Joanna Orwin

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Harper Collins
12 July 2011

Science fiction; Science fiction (Children's&YA); Future Society; Post Holocaust Sci-Fi; Young Adult Science Fiction; Young Adult Science Fiction

A gripping quest that pushes the boundaries of endurance and spirit.

tHE SACRIFICE is a futuristic novel set in the top of the North Island and the Pacific. Decades earlier, eruptions around the Pacific 'ring of fire', and consequent devastating tsunami, had annihilated Western civilization and technology, along with most of the population. those who survive revert to hunter-gatherer mode, both in the absence of technology and in the belief that technology and even crop cultivation were the cause of the catastrophe. there is a return to a belief in elemental gods; some exploiting this as a means of social control. However, in the harsh new climate, and with ever-diminishing resources due to no cultivation or husbandry, youth are selected as the Chosen to travel into the unknown and save their people. One of these is taka, a gifted dancer ... A futuristic novel set in the top of the North Island and the Pacific by an award-winning writer. Age: teenage/young adult

By: Joanna Orwin
Imprint: Harper Collins
Country of Publication: New Zealand
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 654g
ISBN: 9781869509125
ISBN 10: 1869509129
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 12 July 2011
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Award-winning writer Joanna Orwin returns to YA, after a seamless transition to her first adult novel, the bestselling Collision. Her junior novel Guardian of the Land won the 1985 Children's Book of the Year Award, and was re-issued as a Collins Modern New Zealand Classic. Joanna lives and works in Christchurch.