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Glimpse

Author: Higgins,Jane

Item Code: 100125961

Product Type Book

Format Paperback

ISBN 9781922330598

Publisher: THE TEXT PUBLISHING CO PTY LTD

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The city authorities have abandoned the D-Zone as damaged beyond repair. It’s a no-go areawhere ongoing earthquakes threaten to destroy what’s left. But Jonah and Bas and everyoneelse trying to survive in the devastation there can’t leave—they’re ‘illegals’, without citizenship,without rights.
Jonah can see the quakes—before the ground shudders and grinds, before the buildings fall.Glimpsing is a rare ability and a great survival asset. It has attracted the attention of theentertainment company GlimpseCorp and the cult movement People for a New Nation. Both aredesperate to control and cash in on this remarkable power.
When Bas joins People for a New Nation and disappears, Jonah knows his friend is in greatdanger. And he knows that GlimpseCorp, with its reality TV program, offers a way to savehim—and a way to bring new hope to the people of the D-Zone.But Jonah’s plan puts everything, including his own life, at risk.Glimpse is a compelling adventure, an intriguing story of conflict, power, manipulation, love andfriendship, set in richly imagined world that is in many ways very much like our own.
Genre: Adventure Stories Subject: People & Places Reading Level: Upper Primary, Lower Secondary School Year: Year 7, Year 8, Year 9 Ages: 12 to 14 Page Count: 288

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