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HTML: Winner Trinity Schools Book Award 2018 Winner Gateshead YA Book Prize 'I love reading Sarah Govett - she's whip-smart, funny and by plugging into the hope and energy of the youth makes me feel better about these dark times.' Dame Emma Thompson Noa Blake is just another normal 15 year old with exams looming. Except in The Territory normal isn't normal. The richest children have a node on the back of their necks and can download information, bypassing the need to study. In a flooded world of dwindling resources, Noa and the other 'Norms' have their work cut out even to compete. And competing is everything - because anybody who fails the exams will be shipped off to the Wetlands, which means a life of misery, if not certain death. But how to focus when your heart is being torn in two directions at once? 'Truly heart wrenching! ... the 1984 of our time' The Guardian online 'Gripping dystopia with a keen political edge' Imogen Russell Williams, Metro 'This is a truly exceptional novel, exciting, gripping and intense' BookTrust 'pacy dystopian fantasy thriller' Telegraph's Best YA Books of 2015 'thrilling and thought-provoking' The Times 'powerful and shocking' Children's Books Ireland 'a terrific book. It simply is.' Bookwitch 'brilliant' Teen Librarian 'Brilliantly plotted, utterly gripping' Gemma Malley (The Declaration) One of The Telegraph's best YA books of 2015 .No library descriptions found. |
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School exams are stressful and can change your life but none are as stressful or life-changing as the ones 15-year-old teenagers have to undergo in Sarah Govett's The Territory.
It's the year 2059 and the water levels are rising causing a severe lack of land to live in and, therefore, making people who don't pass the exam to be sentenced to live in the Wetlands (a dangerous place filled with deadly diseases and no medical facilities), and not able to return to safety because of the high electric fences surrounding it.
Noa Blake is one of the many teens taking the exam and, in this first book, we see how she deals with everything (friends, family, boys and the crazy amount of studying). However, to make things worse and more unfair, the richest kids can have a surgical implant that allows them to 'download' information into their brains without having to study.
The Territory is a great book in the way that it criticises the educational system because even now the richest families can afford to enrol their children in better schools and have tutors while the less rich are obligated to accept the conditions their schools have. It also raises awareness for climate change and global warming, issues that are of utmost importance today.
The author created a very rich world and plot and I can't wait for the sequel!
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