The Gathering
Published on 27. December 2011
214 pages
978-1-4532-3723-6 (ISBN)
Description
Justice and the First Unit travel to Dustland once again. Can they destroy evil and save the future world?
Knowing they have unfinished business in the future, Justice, the Watcher, Thomas, the magician, Levi, the sufferer, and Dorian, the healer, again combine to form their unit and time-travel to Dustland. The unit hopes to guide the beings of Dustland out of the dangerous, barren place in the hopes of finding a safer home. But neither the unit nor the inhabitants of Dustland are truly safe as long as the sinister Mal remains in power. Will the unit be able to overcome Mal once and for all?
The Gathering is the third and final installment of Virginia Hamilton's dystopian fantasy series, the Justice Trilogy , comprised of Justice and Her Brothers, Dustland, and The Gathering.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Virginia Hamilton including rare photos from the author's estate.
Knowing they have unfinished business in the future, Justice, the Watcher, Thomas, the magician, Levi, the sufferer, and Dorian, the healer, again combine to form their unit and time-travel to Dustland. The unit hopes to guide the beings of Dustland out of the dangerous, barren place in the hopes of finding a safer home. But neither the unit nor the inhabitants of Dustland are truly safe as long as the sinister Mal remains in power. Will the unit be able to overcome Mal once and for all?
The Gathering is the third and final installment of Virginia Hamilton's dystopian fantasy series, the Justice Trilogy , comprised of Justice and Her Brothers, Dustland, and The Gathering.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Virginia Hamilton including rare photos from the author's estate.
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Person
Virginia Hamilton (1934-2002) was the author of over forty books for children, young adults, and their older allies. Throughout a career that spanned four decades, Hamilton earned numerous accolades for her work, including nearly every major award available to writers of youth literature. In 1974,
M.C. Higgins, the Great earned Hamilton the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal (which she was the first African-American author to receive), and the
Boston Globe-Horn Book
Award, three of the field's most prestigious awards. She received the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition bestowed on a writer of books for young readers, in 1992, and in 1995 became the first children's book author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Award." She was also the recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- A Biography of Virginia Hamilton
- Copyright
