New World

Cross, Gillian

ISBN 10: 0823411664 ISBN 13: 9780823411665

Publisher: Holiday House, 1995

Synopsis

Selected, supposedly at random, to test a new virtual reality game, Miriam and Stuart discover that something devious is going on and that the game, New World, is something more than they bargained for. By the author of The Great American Elephant Chase.

About this title

About the Author:

Gillian Cross is one of Britain's most prominent children's authors. She has won both the major awards - the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and the Carnegie Medal - and many others.

From Publishers Weekly:

Miriam, a British teen, has been chosen, seemingly at random, to participate in the secret testing of New World, a cutting-edge virtual-reality game. The game exerts an addictive fascination, but Miriam grows convinced that the program is somehow tapping into her greatest (and, she believes, secret) fear. As the hidden agenda of the game programmers is gradually revealed, Miriam must strengthen bonds with family and friends in order to prevent the programmers from unleashing their potentially dangerous new product. Though this ambitious story makes some intriguing points about an array of worthwhile topics (among them trust, compassion, the nature of illusion and the need to shape one's own destiny), these themes never really come together in the sort of revelatory collision of metaphor and narrative that characterizes Cross's best works (Chartbreaker). On the other hand, the pace never slackens, the characters are subtly developed and suspense is delivered in wholesale quantities. Ages 10-up.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0823411664
• ISBN 13: 9780823411665
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 171