Maphead - Softcover

Howarth Lesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844281426 ISBN 13: 9781844281428

Publisher: Walker books, 2005

Synopsis

The winner of the 1995 Guardian Children's Fiction Award and its sequel - now available in one book! Powers and his son Boothe, alias MapHead, are visitors from the Subtle World - a world that exists side by side with our own. MapHead is able to flash up a map of any place across his head. In the first book, he is twelve and has come to meet his human mother for the first time. In the second, he is a little older and plays a vital role in helping Jack Stamp and his family. These best-selling and highly acclaimed novels can now be owned together for the very first time in an attractive, top-value bind-up.;Winner of the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award. Also Highly Commended for the Carnegie Award and shortlisted for the 1995 Young Telegraph Book of the Year.

About this title

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Walker books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844281426
• ISBN 13: 9781844281428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 361