The Green Book (Sunburst Book) - Hardcover

Paton, Jill Walsh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0780767365 ISBN 13: 9780780767362

Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound, 1996

Synopsis

As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from Earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.

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Review

""The Green Book" is a clever and beautifully shaped little combination of future fiction and metafiction. . .It is the record of the exodus of a group of Britons from a dying Earth to a new planet. . .The naive courage of the children. . .saves the colony." --Starred, "School Library Journal"
"An enthralling story, flawlessly told."--"The New Yorker"
A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year

A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year

"The Green Book" is a clever and beautifully shaped little combination of future fiction and metafiction. . .It is the record of the exodus of a group of Britons from a dying Earth to a new planet. . .The naive courage of the children. . .saves the colony. "Starred, School Library Journal"

An enthralling story, flawlessly told. "The New Yorker""

The Green Book is a clever and beautifully shaped little combination of future fiction and metafiction. . .It is the record of the exodus of a group of Britons from a dying Earth to a new planet. . .The naive courage of the children. . .saves the colony. Starred, School Library Journal

An enthralling story, flawlessly told. The New Yorker

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"The Green Book is a clever and beautifully shaped little combination of future fiction and metafiction. . .It is the record of the exodus of a group of Britons from a dying Earth to a new planet. . .The naive courage of the children. . .saves the colony." --Starred, School Library Journal

"An enthralling story, flawlessly told." --The New Yorker

About the Author

Jill Paton Walsh is the author of books for adults, young adults and children. Her novel Knowledge of Angels was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Her crime novels and mystery novels include The Attenbury Emeralds, A Presumption of Death, The Wyndham Case and A Piece of Justice, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. With Dorothy L. Sayers, she was co-author of Thrones, Dominations. Her novels for children and young adults include A Parcel of Patterns. She lives in Cambridge, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0780767365
• ISBN 13: 9780780767362
• Binding: Hardcover