Green Boy
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発行者による作品情報
Two brothers encounter danger and adventure in a world of the future in this classic dystopian novel from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper.
Long Pond Cay, in the Bahamas, is a magical white-sand island, and twelve-year-old Trey and silent seven-year-old Lou love to visit its loneliness. But one day the magic becomes nightmare, and suddenly they are in another world, strident, polluted, and overcrowded -- where little Lou is hailed not as a mute Bahamian boy but as the mythic hero Lugh, born to bring terrible destruction and renewal.
Carried betwween worlds in a zigzag adenture of mounting tension and danger, the children risk their lives not only to save the alien world, but to ward off a new, parallel threat to their beloved Long Pond Cay. The forces of myth and nature explode together in an amazing climax.
This is a deeply moving fantasy told by an internationally acclaimed Newbery Award -- wining writer, who knows and loves the Bahamian islands. Its vision of a spoiled world ominously like our own will haunt the reader for long time to come.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Set on a fictitious island, this fantasy begins with restful images but soon quickens its pace as two worlds (their real unspoiled island and the 'otherworld') collide for a 12-year-old and his 'strange and special brother.' Readers are likely to be pulled in by the sensitive portrayals of the siblings, the mysterious adventures and the whirlwind climax," PW said. Ages 9-12.
