The silent one / Joy Cowley.
Material type: TextPublication details: Auckland, N.Z. : Puffin, 2000.Description: 126 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0141310618 (pbk.) :
- Children and animals -- Juvenile fiction
- Deaf children -- Juvenile fiction
- Mutism -- Juvenile fiction
- Sea turtles -- Juvenile fiction
- Human-animal relationships -- Juvenile fiction
- Loneliness in children -- Juvenile fiction
- Superstition -- Juvenile fiction
- Deaf -- Juvenile fiction
- Turtles -- Juvenile fiction
- Loneliness -- Juvenile fiction
- Children's stories, New Zealand -- Juvenile fiction
- Mute persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Pacific Area -- Juvenile fiction
- NZ823.2 21
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Stackroom | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Stack Room | Temporarily Unavailable | COW | 1 | Pending hold | Unavailable (Archived) | T00448657 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Silent One is Jonasi, sent from the sea as a baby to grow up in an isolated Pacific village. Separated from the villagers by his silence and their prejudices, Jonasi finds solace in his underwater world where he develops a special relationship with a huge white turtle. However, the superstitious villagers see both Jonasi and the turtle as evil spirits. A series of natural disasters and a struggle for leadership within the village sweep Jonasi toward his strange destiny.
Novel for children.
"The moving story of a special friendship"--Cover.
New Zealand author.
First published: Christchurch, N.Z. : Whitcoulls, 1981.
On a Pacific island, a deaf-mute boy's devotion to a great white turtle provokes prejudice and the anger of a superstitious shaman. Unable to speak, Jonasi is blamed by superstitious villagers for the drought on their island.
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