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Walking Mountain


School year: Lower 6th, Upper 6th, Year 10, Year 11, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 224

Published: 2017

Great for age 10-18 years

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Every year, for as long as anyone can remember, the Mountain has moved a little northwards. But now its moving in the opposite direction. And its picking up speed. Pema is sent by his grandparents to consult the Sisters of the Snow, the Keepers of the Mountain, but his enquiries are met with stony denial. Singay, a rebellious apprentice Sister knows different and secretly shows Pema cracks in the rock. Then she invites him inside the Mountain where they meet Rose, the Meteor Driver who is literally trying to hold everything together. This unlikely trio embark on an epic adventure which leads them far beyond the safe, closeted world they know. And as they learn the terrible truth about the Walking Mountain their journey becomes a race against time to save the entire planet from disaster.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.

There are 224 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2017 by Birlinn General .

Joan Lennon lives in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland, on the River Tay. She has a husband, four tall sons, two short cats, and a miscellaneously sized group of piano pupils. Joan was born in Canada and this is her first book for Puffin.

 

This book has been nominated for the following award:

Scottish Teenage Book Award
This book was recognised by the Scottish Teenage Book Award.

'Full of inventiveness and imagination. It's warm, funny, sad, happy. Do read it'

* An Awfully Big Blog Adventure *

 

'Walking Mountain is one of the best books I've read in a long time ... a hidden treasure'

* The Bookwitch *

 

`Another compelling futuristic story, fantastic and baroque. Lennon's world is laced with captivating detail, from the strange animals, gows and marmoldes, to the extraordinary figure at the heart of the story, The Meteor Driver'

-- Vicky Allan * The Herald *

 

'It is perhaps inevitable that any book that can be described by the phrase "epic quest" evokes comparisons with "The Hobbit", and it's a comparison which is entirely justified in terms of the way the world Joan Lennon has created draws the reader in and keeps you completely enthralled. This is a great book we'd strongly recommend to the young reader or readers in your life'

* Undiscovered Scotland *