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Return of the Quetzal
US
price: $12.95
UK
Price £10.99
See the authors's website at
www.margaretgill.co.uk A ripping good yarn for teenage girls set in the Costa
Rican Rain Forest. The linking of Meg’s, the heroine’s, exploration of
Mayan culture and history with the contemporary problems of the Indians,
gives the story an edgy, topical slant. The teenage heroine Meg, uprooted from her smug little middle class life in England, struggles to find her place in the multi-cultural broil of a small Central American country. She stands alone in both her doubts about the strangely compelling and mysterious new teacher and in her search for her missing brother until she meets Tony, her first friend in a strange country, and her first love. The quest for her brother in the heart of the Costa Rican Rain Forest
is beautifully realised, as is the terrific final climax to the
book.—Bette Paul (Children’s Author and Winner of the Carnegie Medal.) Available from the following on-line bookstores: Also by Margaret Gill:
The Brain Changers is set in the technologically near future and the basic mood and thrust of the story is fantasy involving higher beings, magical interventions, and mystical philosophy. A good Young Adult story with well drawn characters.” —Ian Watson, science fiction author and screenwriter of Speilberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A boy with ESP powers and a magic narwhal tusk set a remote
Scillonian island aflame. A mystery thriller with a difference.
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