The Lottery

Informationen zum Autor Beth Goobie is an award-winning children's author whose novels have won and been shortlisted for the most prestigious prizes in her native Canada, including the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature and the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year Award. She graduated with an English degree and has worked with abused children for many years. The Lottery was shortlisted for the Ottaker's Children's Book Prize. Klappentext At the beginning of every school year! the Shadow Council hold The Lottery! an infamous ritual in which a student is chosen to be the year's 'victim' - a person who is shunned by the entire school and forced to obey the Shadow Council's every wish. This year 15-year-old Sally Hanson is the Shadow Council's victim. Beth Goobie´s The Lottery is a tense and gripping psychological thriller. Zusammenfassung At the beginning of every school year, the Shadow Council hold The Lottery, an infamous ritual in which a student is chosen to be the year's 'victim' - a person who is shunned by the entire school and forced to obey the Shadow Council's every wish. This year 15-year-old Sally Hanson is the Shadow Council's victim.

Product details

• Authors: Beth Goobie, Goobie Beth
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780571228645
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22864-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age; Interest age: from c 12 years, Reading Age: From C 12 Years, Bullying; Revenge; School; Terror