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Ghosts Of Heaven
Paperback Edition: 1
The Ghosts of Heaven is a book that will introduces teenage readers to a more inventive understanding of storytelling and is a book teens are likely to remember as a pivotal reading experience.A cleverly interlinked novel written in four parts by PRINTZ AWARD-winning author, Marcus
Sedgwick, about survival and discovery, and about the effect of the spiral, a symbol that has no end, on all our lives. The spiral has existed as long as time has existed. Follow the ways of infinity to discover its meaning. It's there when a girl walks through the forest, the moist green air clinging to her skin. There centuries later in a pleasant green dale, hiding the treacherous waters of Golden Beck that take Anna, who they call a witch. There on the other side of the world, where a mad poet watches the waves and knows the horrors they hide, and far into the future as Keir Bowman realises his destiny. Each takes their next step in life. None will ever go back to the same place. And so their journeys begin... Costa 2014 Shortlist.
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Publisher : Indigo Press
Publication date : 2015-03
Subjects: Fiction, Children's & Young Adult, Children's & Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy & Magical Realism (Children's / Young Adult), Historical Fiction (Children's / Young Adult)