基本信息·出版社:Scholastic Paperbacks ·页码:192 页 ·出版日期:2004年09月 ·ISBN:0439636167 ·条形码:9780439636162 ·装帧:简装 ·正文语种 ...
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基本信息·出版社:Scholastic Paperbacks
·页码:192 页
·出版日期:2004年09月
·ISBN:0439636167
·条形码:9780439636162
·装帧:简装
·正文语种:英语
·丛书名:Point (Scholastic Inc.)
·外文书名:红月之影
内容简介 If it had been up to Jon, he never would have left Crystal City. But the Fen children had finally broken through the city walls. And the Okalian way would survive only if some of the Okalians survived. So Jon sets out into a strange new world. He's been told to find the Ancient Land, where Okalian civilization began. But he hasn't been told of the horrors he will have to face in the cold Wilderness in order to get there. Now he must face the fact that everything he's been taught might be a lie -- a lie he must face for everything to survive.
编辑推荐 From School Library Journal Grade 5-9?The Okalians have survived a meteor collision and a long exile from their homeland, and now face certain annihilation at the hands of the Fens, a group of marauding children. Jon, a 15-year-old Okalian, is sent by his parents into the Wilderness to return to the Ancient Land and restore their race to its former greatness. On his journey he teams up with a young girl, her brother, and a black unicorn. Using spare prose and lean characters, Myers masterfully creates a world in which adults are nearly nonexistent and children struggle to establish a life for themselves. They face endless dangers in their environment, including the temptation to escape reality. Forced to redefine a world gone wrong, they return to ancient traditions and values, and ultimately learn to see beyond human differences. YAs will enjoy the fantasy and adventure, while mature readers will recognize the story's vivid parallels with modern society. While this tale is narrated in gray and somber tones, in the end the meteor dust is settling, and the red moon offers a beam of hope.?Tim Rausch, Crescent View Middle School, Sandy, UT
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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Gr. 6^-10. Part fable, part fantasy and survival adventure, this tells the story of 15-year-old Jon and a group of young people who are sent out from their besieged Crystal City to find their way through the Wilderness and past their dangerous enemies back to the Ancient Land to make a new start for their people. Their quest is your usual perilous adventure: they free a unicorn, run from a pack of blind dogs, resist the lure of a comfortable, drugged trap, bond with each other, and struggle over the mountains. The surprise is that they also bond with the enemy. In a beautiful, poignant ending, they discover that the enemy, whom they have been taught to fear as uncivilized marauders, is just like "us." Together the ragged bands of kids "make peace with food and with the weather and with each other." The problem is that the very vagueness of the characters, both friend and foe--though it suits the moral ending--makes it hard to care about the conflict in the course of the story. The art was not seen in galley, but the cover illustration of a child huddled in the wilderness is extraordinarily moving.
Hazel Rochman --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.