Juggling with Mandarins is a novel about growing up. Along the way, he also finds the courage to confront his father and express his anger and resentment - to publicly claim the right to be his own person and live his life on his own terms. He sets his sights high and finally learns how to juggle not three balls, but five mandarins. When Pip's English teacher challenges her students to learn how to juggle three balls, Pip is determined that he will do better than that. Pip is good at English, like his mother but Pip's father wants him to be a soccer star like Nick, Pip's brother, and to win at any cost.
Two, three, four - how many mandarins can Pip juggle? A coming-of-age novel about Pip, whose father wants him to be everything that Pip is not. Award-winning author Greg Pyers presents twists and turns which have the reader guessing and being surprised right to the final page. Soon, Carly and Ace are on the run, running from something Carly cannot begin to understand.ĭouble Cross is a chillingly dark adventure set in a not so distant future and exploring a possible future created by advances in genetic technology. But when Carly meets Ace, a teenage fugitive, she quickly sees the other, darker side of this new world. It is, after all, 2032 and genetic manipulation is used to produce whatever people want. I just wanted to stop!įor Carly, a world where thylacines once again roam free and cows can produce strawberry milk is normal. The tractor was bouncing on its suspension, and me with it, like it was actually trying to shake me off. The gravel was racing by in a blur only centimetres under my backside, while the wheels blasted me with sand and grit. The question remains will it act together in concert to preserve humanity or to destroy? Questions that are still relevant today for teen readers.Things were bad. His vision of the future world is no longer safe or benevolent but rather a highly organised human-animal swarm that thinks as One, not unlike the hive mind of today's internet.
Way ahead of his time was Kelleher, this 1995 published book was written before movies like Avatar or The Matrix and before cloning and extra-uteral births were considered a possibility. He writes a good human interest story with enough dramatic tension and thrills to ensure pages are turned quickly and enough philosophy to challenge cherished beliefs about nature and planetary intelligence.
As a middle aged woman teen sci fi holds no real attraction for me yet the serendipity of finding this book on a shelf in an old NSW nurses hostel was a fortunate stroke of luck. Acclaimed Australian author Victor Kelleher explores themes of apocalypse, human responsibility, survival and freedom in a sinister future scenario where two teens are sent back to repopulate the earth thousands of years from now.
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