The Other Place
by Monica Hughes
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Monica Hughes has seen the future-- not to mention the past and present. Her stories transcend time, embracing terrific plotting, non-stop suspense and real life characters. The author of more than 30 young adult and children's novels, she continually challenges herself and her readers to create exciting, gripping stories of ordinary kids facing extraordinary situations. Now, in "The Other Place", Hughes returns to her most popular setting-- a not-so-distant future world. The Fairweather show more family, mom, dad, eight-year-old Billy and pre-teen Alison, have just been charged with crimes of subversion against the all-powerful World Government. Now they are about to become "disappeareds", all traces of their existence wiped cleanly away. The Fairweathers are sentenced to five years in the mysterious penal colony of Habitat W- a self-contained, controlled and eerily sterile indoor place that opens to a seething desert of fierce wind and sand. Strangely, Mr. and Mrs. Fairweather robotically resign themselves to their fate. But Billy is convinced that somewhere beyond the barren desert, there is a paradise to be found. His escape from Habitat W sets off a chain of startling events that helps Alison to discover "the other place" and a new hope for their future. show lessTags
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39+ Works 2,852 Members
Monica Hughes was born in Liverpool, England on November 3, 1925. Before joining the Women's Royal Naval Service, she lived in Egypt as a child and went to school in Scotland. During World War II, she worked on breaking German codes. In 1952, she immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and began working at Ottawa's National Research Council. She show more started writing survival stories and science fiction novels for young adults. Her works include the Isis trilogy and Hunter in the Dark. She won numerous awards including the Phoenix Award for literary merit. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2002. She died from a stroke on March 7, 2003 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- First words
- BANG! BANG! I woke up, sleepily wondering if the thunderous knocking on the door was part of a dream.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Dear trickster Jay.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .H87364 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- 30
- Popularity
- 923,588
- Rating
- (4.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
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- ISBNs
- 3
