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Smiling Jack / Ken Catran.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Auckland [N.Z.] : HarperCollins, 2010.Description: 271 pages; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781869508128 (pbk.)
  • 1869508122 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • NZ823.2 22
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.C273 Smi 2010
Other classification:
  • F CAT
Awards:
  • New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2011 Children's Choice Young Adult Fiction Winner.
Summary: Robert lives in a small, prosperous rural town where his father is a respected and trusted pillar of the local community and financial advisor to the eccentric but essentially harmless community of Atenists who live nearby. When Robert's father and Uncle are killed in a road accident, his comfortable world rapidly begins to unravel. With so much to deal with, he barely thinks about the evil grin on the playing card Jack, found at the site of the accident. Until the second death, and the third, when once again Jack's leering malicious grin is found nearby. As Robert realises he never knew his father, those people his father betrayed turn against him, and he is forced to look deep into the shadows that are closing in if he is to get out alive. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
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Young Adult Young Adult Waimate Stack/Library office Children &Young Adults Section CAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available STACK A00544619

Novel for children.

Robert lives in a small, prosperous rural town where his father is a respected and trusted pillar of the local community and financial advisor to the eccentric but essentially harmless community of Atenists who live nearby. When Robert's father and Uncle are killed in a road accident, his comfortable world rapidly begins to unravel. With so much to deal with, he barely thinks about the evil grin on the playing card Jack, found at the site of the accident. Until the second death, and the third, when once again Jack's leering malicious grin is found nearby. As Robert realises he never knew his father, those people his father betrayed turn against him, and he is forced to look deep into the shadows that are closing in if he is to get out alive. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2011 Children's Choice Young Adult Fiction Winner.

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