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15 pages
illustrations (some colour)
New Zealand author; New Zealand illustrator. The text has a reading year level of years 5 to 6. Teacher support material and audio for this text are available online at www.schooljournalstorylibrary.tki.org.nz Learning area: English, Social Sciences.
Summary: A graphic novel set in a dystopian future where children from oppressed “regions” have been taken from their homes and forced to live in city “pens”. The children spend their days in a classroom building uniform towers out of small white bricks - trained to think alike and act submissively. Any voice of creativity or dissent is quickly “hushed”, until one day a new student called Tre arrives. As Tre feels his creativity slowly being stifled, he breaks out of the classroom and begins a journey to find his parents.
School journal story library.
New Zealand curriculum.
Level 3.