Calling the Gods
By (Author) Jack Lasenby
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
1st December 2011
New Zealand
Young Adult
Fiction
823.2
Winner of New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Senior Fiction 2012
Paperback
306
Width 140mm, Height 210mm, Spine 20mm
399g
Thrown hard on the bottom boards, I stared up at distorted mouths, faces so red I could feel their heat. They stank of rage and of something else; several frothed at the mouth; their howls drowned the clatter and shriek of gulls swerving and tilting above the mast. Banishment is the cruellest punishment, and Selene is being driven out unjustly by her own people. Set in a New Zealand both recognisable and strangely different, CALLING THE GODS is a novel for older readers, a story of violence, love, and courage, of leadership and betrayal, of the extraordinary human ability to adapt and survive, a tale of a young woman's heroic persistence against impossible odds. Ages: 13+
Jack Lasenby lives and works in Wellington, spinning yarns and telling tales to delight children of all ages. He grew up in Waharoa, and watched drovers and their dogs, so he knows what he's talking about.