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Fourth World
Kate Thompson
Fiction (Trilogy)
14 and up
Bloomsbury, 2000, 1-58234-650-X
  Christie’s stepbrother Danny is fifteen and yet he does not behave has if he is fifteen. His language skills are not very good and sometimes Danny seems to loose control. It would be easier if Christie disliked Danny, just as he dislikes his new life with his mother and stepfather, but Danny is hard to dislike and Christie has a found a way to calm the boy when he is overwrought. It is a connection. A tenuous one perhaps, but a connection nevertheless.
  It is this connection which drives a reluctant Christie to join his brother when Danny suddenly gets it into his head that he, Danny, is going to go to Scotland to join his birth mother Maggie. There is no way that Danny could make the journey from Ireland to Scotland on his own so Christie agrees to go with him though the younger boy keeps telling himself that he is going to go home soon. The journey is going to be hard, for Danny has had very little contact with the outside world and does not know how to take care of himself. The situation is made even worse when an oil crisis makes travel incredibly difficult. As they travel north towards Scotland chaos swirls around them and Christie wonders how people are going to manage without gas to bring food items to the shops.
  Christie and Danny’s journey is made even more peculiar when they are joined by a homeless girl called Tina and two talking animals; Darling the starling and Oggy the dog. It would appear that Danny’s mother sent the animals to help Danny get to her home in northern Scotland.
  After a grueling and dangerous journey the two children and their escorts arrive at what Maggie calls Fourth World. They meet an amazing collection of animals and Christie begins to wonder what it is that Maggie is doing in this remote place. Why are the animals able to talk? Why does Danny’s half sister Sandy looks so different? And, most importantly, what does Maggie do in her hidden lab?
  In this captivating book Kate Thompson creates a world full of secrets and unknowns. She takes her readers on a voyage to a place and a time when many of the rules that we accept as being solid and unbroken are snapped and changed. Suddenly the seemingly uncrossable barrier between species is broken and the possibilities are both terrifying and exciting. What happens when you combine the DNA of humans with that of animals?
  This is the first book in what promises to be a thrilling trilogy.
 

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