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Thieves ISBN: 9781877361487 Release: 06 2006 Subject: Young Adult Fiction Format: Paperback RRP: NZ$18.99 Download Resource Kit for teachers |
Nicky is asked to read some of her work aloud in class. She dreads it — and, just as she starts — she finds herself elsewhere. Transported. For Nicky is one of a select few people who can will themselves away not just in mind, but in body. She has the gift of teleportation. It's a rare, genetic ability, and a sinister, anonymous group called The Project want to use her for it.
Nicky finds herself taken away to a nameless desert site. Here, she and four other teenagers, who are also 'travellers', are educated and trained for search and rescue missions.
As these missions grow more frightening, more perilous, the five start to form closer friendships. Yet it is only when they realise that The Project wants them to breed more travellers like themselves, that Nicky, Paul, and the others, find the impetus to form an escape plan.
In a stark, direct style, this novel pulls you right in to this strange, sinister world of gifted young adults exploited by an anonymous group. Part fantasy, part sci–fi, this novel is above all a thriller. It comments on much that is surreal in our own supposedly ordinary times.
A fast–paced, sci–fi chiller thriller. A remarkable and original debut.
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Reviewers Comments ...
‘…thoroughly thrilling and enthralling!’ - YARA Website, 2007 ‘THIEVES is a remarkable debut novel, fresh and readable…it is also the best teenage science fiction novel I have read this century.’ - Magpies, 2006 |
NZ Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults – 2007 Finalist, Young Adult Fiction Category
CLFNZ Notable Books List 2007
