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Touchstone
by Lorraine E Orman   

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Category:  Young Adult/Teen
Publisher: Ashmore Books

Type: Fiction

Pages: 203

Copyright: 
April 7, 2013
ISBN-13: 9780473239732

Price: $4.99 (eBook)


Sixteen-year-old Skye travels to the remote West Coast of New Zealand to discover her family - but finds herself caught in a network of secrets and lies.

When Skye visits her ailing great-grandfather in his isolated house on the wild West Coast of New Zealand, she's hoping to expose some family secrets. But she ends up with more than she bargained for. She discovers a cousin, Josh, whom she never knew existed. She begins to uncover the reason for the animosity between her mother and her aunt. But then Skye spends a night at a camp set up by Josh's eco-warrior protest group (who are trying to stop an opencast coal mine in a pristine mountain valley) and she is caught up in another web of deception and double-cross. She struggles to do the right thing - but in the end, all she can do is ... run for her life.



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"My name is Skye Saunders so my initials are SS. I know that stands for Hitler's Schultz Staffen but it also stands for smart and sassy, which is what I am on the inside. And for shy and subservient, which is what I am on the outside. And for sullen and spoilt (and sometimes even stupid)which is what my mother often calls me."


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Lorraine has written a thrilling story using two protagonists' voices. She skilfully blends historical and present day time settings to reveal the family secrets. Lorraine explores several issues in the story: a troubled mother-daughter relationship, teenagers with low self-esteem, the damage that lies can cause, and conservation of the wilderness versus mining and development What matters most to a teenager reading it, though, is that it is a hard-to-put-down book once you begin reading and both boys and girls will enjoy it."


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Reviewed by Lorraine Orman 8/6/2013
From the author - This novel has a strong environmental theme. I'm hoping it will make readers think about the damage that the increased mining of coal will do to our environment and climate. The sad thing is that the situation I describe in the story is actually happening right now - an environmental group called Forest and Bird and a coalmining company are battling it out in the courts of New Zealand. Personally, I hope the environmentalists win.
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