- Science fiction, Survival, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
Set in the future during a new ice age, James and Robert leave the crime-ridden, warm South for a more primitive existence in the North as the two rejoin James' parents on their farm in Missouri and prepare for the approaching winter.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Gary L. Blackwood
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 213
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780689314827
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Though he's best known as an author of novels and nonfiction books (*The Shakespeare Stealer* series, *The Year of the Hangman*, *Second Sight*, *Bucket's List*), **Gary L. Blackwood** has also penned a dozen stage plays for youth and adults. **Dark Horse** won the Ferndale (CA) Repertory Theatre's competition; ***The Count of One*** was winner of the Festival of Firsts in Carmel, CA; ***Fateville*** took top prize at the Dayton FutureFest. His stage adaptation of ***The Shakespeare Stealer*** has been produced by most of the top children's theatres in the States.
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