The crossing / Mandy Hager.

By:

Hager, Mandy [author,, writer of foreword.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Hager, Mandy, Blood of the lamb ; book 1.Publication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Random House New Zealand, 2009.Description: 288 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781869791506
1869791509
9781869791506

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Young adult fiction, New Zealand.

Awards:

New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Young adult fiction; Winner, 2010.

Summary: The people of Onewere, a small island in the Pacific, have survived a deadly event that consumed the earth. Now, from a rotting cruise ship, the elite control the population, manipulating old texts to set themselves up as 'living gods'. When Mayam crosses from child to woman, she must leave everything she has ever known and make a crossing of another kind. But life inside the ship is not as she had dreamed, and she is faced with two choices: obey the leaders and very likely die, or turn her back on her beliefs. Suggested level: secondary.

List(s) this item appears in: NCEA Wide Reading - Level one fiction | Hāwera Reading Vine | NCEA 1 | NCEA 2 | NCEA wide reading Level 1 fiction - 2020

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Average rating: 4.0 (1 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Teen Fiction	South LibraryPlus Teen	Teen Fiction	HAGE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		I2087221

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Novel for young adults.

The people of Onewere, a small island in the Pacific, have survived a deadly event that consumed the earth. Now, from a rotting cruise ship, the elite control the population, manipulating old texts to set themselves up as 'living gods'. When Mayam crosses from child to woman, she must leave everything she has ever known and make a crossing of another kind. But life inside the ship is not as she had dreamed, and she is faced with two choices: obey the leaders and very likely die, or turn her back on her beliefs. Suggested level: secondary.

New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Young adult fiction; Winner, 2010.

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