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Plague Trilogy, For National Curriculum Key Stage 3, Interest age: from c 12 years, Fiction, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage)
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50 years on from Come Lucky April...
April and David have confronted the orthodoxy - they believe girls and boys should be able to grow up together. They determine to send their son away, to spare him the humilation of castration. '
Hal spends several years there, waiting for the ban to be lifted. He befriends the daughters of the family he lives with - but when he challenges his 'father' he is sent from the house, and discovers a new life in the lawless part of the settlement. He realises he needs to help the girls he can to escape and return to Croydon. How can he save them?
Life back in Croydon things are changing, too. People are dying. Beliefs are being challenged. Are things any better than they were 150 years ago? Is there hope for the future?
Praise for Plague Trilogy: Watchers at the Shrine
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Praise for Plague 99: A cross between Lord of the Flies and Day of the Triffids... it is better written than anything by Wyndham and I prefer her characters to Golding's unconvincing schoolboys. - Guardian
Jean Ure
Started writing books when very young. First book published while at school. Been at it ever since. Have large family of animals, all rescued.
Some favourite books when I was a child and still favourites today: WINNIE THE POOH; LITTLE WOMEN; JUST WILLIAM; CATCHER IN THE RYE; I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.
Favourite music: almost anything by Bach.
Favourite movies: THE BIG LEBOWSKI
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