Finding Jade
Daughters of Light
Published on 17. December 2016
216 pages
978-1-4597-3502-6 (ISBN)
Description
- Not your average dystopia: Author used reputable climate-change studies to predict what life on Earth will be like in just fifteen years if more preventative efforts are not made
- Combines a realistic setting with a meticulously developed fantasy world with its own rules: The-Place-In-Between
- Protagonist is a young woman of colour struggling to cope in a devastated future
- Combines mythologies and beliefs from a variety of cultures regarding angels and Armageddon, intertwined with African folklore surrounding the special nature of identical twins
- Jasmine's experiences at Beaconsfield, the school for Seers bring the grit of The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen to the magical school setting of Hogwarts
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Person
Mary Jennifer Payne's writing has been published in journals, anthologies, and magazines in Canada and abroad. She is the author of several YA graphic novels and the YA novel Since You've Been Gone. She teaches special education with the Toronto District School Board and lives in Toronto.
Content
- Cover
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Chapter 23
- Chapter 24
- Chapter 25
- Chapter 26
- Chapter 27
- Chapter 28
- Chapter 29
- Chapter 30
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
