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Synopsis
Twelve-year-old MapHead, a boy with strange powers from an alternative world, travels to England in search of his human mother.
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About the Author
Lesley Howarth has won numerous awards for her books, which include "The Flower King", "Weather Eye" and "The Pits". Lesley has three daughters and lives with her husband in Cornwall in a house that they built themselves.
From Booklist
Gr. 6-8. Maphead and his father, Powers, live in a parallel universe called the Subtle World, a world that exists alongside and within ordinary reality, invisible to all but a few people. To gain his full power, Maphead must meet his mother--a mortal--during his twelfth year. He and his father take on human form to accomplish this, and calling himself Boothe, Maphead enters the local school. He develops a friendship with Kenny, his mother's other son, to whom he reveals his true nature. When Boothe proves his real identity to his mother, he experiences an integration of self that gives him power--equal to his father's--to transport himself and his mother from her world to the Subtle World and back again. Young adults will identify with Maphead's perception of himself as an outsider who longs for acceptance and recognition. Within the framework of a science fiction novel, Howarth skillfully evokes the internal landscapes of a young man's emotions and imagination. Maphead's search for a human relationship touches all the characters, including the rigid Mrs. Wellbeloved, who's transformed through the boy's magic into a woman worthy of her name. In seeking his mother, Maphead makes the journey from isolation to community and from childhood to adulthood. Merri Monks
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