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| Genre/Form: | Young adult fiction Alternative histories (Fiction) Juvenile fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN: | 9780061433023 0061433020 9780061433016 0061433012 9780061709135 0061709131 |
| OCLC Number: | 191931633 |
| Awards: | Odyssey Honor, 2009. Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, 2009. |
| Description: | 367 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | How Imo made the world -- the plague -- The new world -- Calenture -- Bargains, covenants, and promises -- The milk that happens -- A star is born -- Diving for gods -- It takes a lifetime to learn how to die -- Rolling the stone -- Believing is seeing -- Crimes and punishments -- Cannon and politics -- Truce -- Duel -- The world turned upside down -- Today -- Author's note. |
| Responsibility: | Terry Pratchett. |
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Nation by Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is one of those authors who are so good that I will read anything that he has written. He is always funny, sometimes sad, and exuberantly intelligent throughout. His stories have serious things in them--religion, for instance, or death, or the misunderstanding of foreign culture--but...
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Terry Pratchett is one of those authors who are so good that I will read anything that he has written. He is always funny, sometimes sad, and exuberantly intelligent throughout. His stories have serious things in them--religion, for instance, or death, or the misunderstanding of foreign culture--but he presents them with such humor, and in the hands of such likable characters, that you don't notice when they punch you in the stomach.
Nation is about two young people: a shipwrecked girl from England named Ermintrude, and a boy named Mau whose entire tribe is lost in a tsunami. Together, they have to survive, despite the discovery that not speaking the same language is sometimes like standing on opposite sides of a very thick wall. They are sensible young people though, and their adventures turn them into heroes, despite the foul-mouthed parrot, the insistent ghosts, and the impending tribe of cannibals.
This is a different kind of Terry Pratchett book--it's not set in his famous Discworld, and its world could almost be ours, a long time ago--but it's still full of his familiar wit and good humor.
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