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As their small stock of essential supplies dwindles, a group of refugees from earth struggle to make their strange new planet provide life's necessities.
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About the Author
Jill Paton Walsh is the author of books for adults, young adults and children. Her novel Knowledge of Angels was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Her crime novels and mystery novels include The Attenbury Emeralds, A Presumption of Death, The Wyndham Case and A Piece of Justice, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award. With Dorothy L. Sayers, she was co-author of Thrones, Dominations. Her novels for children and young adults include A Parcel of Patterns. She lives in Cambridge, England.
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"The Green Book is a clever and beautifully shaped little combination of future fiction and metafiction. . .It is the record of the exodus of a group of Britons from a dying Earth to a new planet. . .The naïve courage of the children. . .saves the colony." --Starred, School Library Journal
“An enthralling story, flawlessly told.”—The New Yorker
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
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- PublisherPerfection Learning
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0780767365
- ISBN 13 9780780767362
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages69
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