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Hunter Joy Cowley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Puffin 2005.Description: 148 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143318293 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Awards:
  • New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2006 Book of the Year Winner.
  • New Zealand Post Junior Fiction, 2006
  • New Zealand Post Book of the Year, 2006
Summary: In 2005 Jordon and her two younger brothers survive a plane crash but are stranded in remote Fjordland on the South-West coast of New Zealand. In 1805 Hunter, a young Ma¿¿ori slave, is hiding in the same location after escaping his captors. He knows he needs keep running but he also knows that the interconnecting visions he's sharing with Jordon will help her and her brothers survive. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
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Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Stackroom Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Stack Room Temporarily Unavailable COW 1 Available Unavailable (Archived) T00412879
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this riveting book, world-renowned author Joy Cowley brings together two very different worlds, giving us a rare glimpse of the remarkable human spirit that connects us all. When fourteen-year-old Jordan and her young brothers learn they'll have to ride a rickety plane home for the holidays, they're worried. But when it crashes on a wild and deserted peninsula in New Zealand, they are completely terrified - and alone. Or are they? Whose voice is Jordan hearing, telling her what to do next? Two hundred years ago a hunter the same age as Jordan is also in a dangerous situation. He is a slave to Maori warriors hunting for the moa, and he has the gift of sight. But what is the strange silvery bird that he sees crashing into the sea? And who is the girl with golden hair who is in trouble? He needs to escape the warriors, but he is driven to help the girl. If only she will listen.

Novel for children.

Originally published: New York : Philomel Books, 2004.

In 2005 Jordon and her two younger brothers survive a plane crash but are stranded in remote Fjordland on the South-West coast of New Zealand. In 1805 Hunter, a young Ma¿¿ori slave, is hiding in the same location after escaping his captors. He knows he needs keep running but he also knows that the interconnecting visions he's sharing with Jordon will help her and her brothers survive. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children & Young Adults 2006 Book of the Year Winner.

New Zealand Post Junior Fiction, 2006

New Zealand Post Book of the Year, 2006

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Reviews provided by Syndetics

School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-8-In 1805, Hunter, a Maori teen who has been enslaved by the leaders of a rival tribe, has a gift "of seeing things that were hidden." He is forced to lead his captors' warriors to one of the last surviving moa. Along with his vision of the bird's location, he sees a "canoe- with wings" and white children in distress, images that tie into the story's alternating plot of three siblings trying to survive a small plane crash on a remote New Zealand beach in 2005. The eldest, nearly 14-year-old Jordan, has recently become interested in examining her family's mixed ethnic background and reclaiming her Maori heritage. She receives messages across time and space from Hunter, who knows her by her Maori name, Marama. He provides her with the information that allows the siblings to find shelter and food, cope with life-threatening injuries, and make a much-needed fire. In the end, Hunter escapes his captors and the youngsters are rescued; readers also discover that Hunter is the children's ancestor, hence the reason for communication over a 200-year barrier. Alternately exciting and mysterious, the novel has highly appealing elements that are likely to grab fans of adventure/survival stories such as Gary Paulsen's Hatchet (Macmillan, 1986), and time-slip fantasies like Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden (Yearling, 1990).-Ellen Fader, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 5-8. Is there such a thing as an ancestor guardian angel? Cowley plays with the question in this survival adventure about Hunter, a runaway Maori slave in New Zealand in 1805, and Jordan, a mixed-race teenager in 2005 who wants to explore her Maori ancestry--even though her parents couldn't care less about that genealogy stuff. After the plane Jordan and her two younger brothers are on crashes on a wild shore, Hunter risks being caught to save her. Jordan feels Hunter's presence like a voice in her head as he guides her to food and shelter. Is he her ancestor? The contemporary story is livelier than the mystical contrivance, and Hunter is too reverential. But New Zealand writer Cowley, who is researching her own Maori roots, weaves in fascinating history, and the two survival adventures are told in tense alternating narratives that add to the compelling rescue drama. --Hazel Rochman Copyright 2004 Booklist

Horn Book Review

In 1805, an enslaved Maori boy escapes his captors. In 2005, a plane carrying Jordan and her two younger brothers crashes in the New Zealand wilds. The two seemingly unrelated narratives merge as Hunter begins having visions of the marooned youngsters and, through telepathy and sensory memories, helps Jordan find shelter, food, and healing plants. This element of mysticism adds intrigue to a quietly effective survival story. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

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