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A Killing Frost Hardcover - 1998

by John Marsden

It's nearly six months since our country was invaded. We've lived in a war zone since January, and now it's July. So short a time, so long a time . . . I'm an expert on fear now. I think I've felt every strong feeling there is: love, hate, jealousy, rage. But fear's the greatest of them all. Nothing reaches inside and grabs you by the guts the way fear does. Nothing else possesses you like that. It's a kind of illness, a fever, that takes you over. Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip to find their country at war. Learning together, they fight back - battling fear, rage, and the invading army that has stolen their land, seized their homes, taken their families, and destroyed their future. Continuing the story begun in Tomorrow When the War Began and The Dead of Night, John Marsden paints a shockingly realistic portrait of teenagers who take great risks to defend what is theirs.


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It's nearly six months since our country was invaded. We've lived in a war zone since January, and now it's July. So short a time, so long a time . . . I'm an expert on fear now. I think I've felt every strong feeling there is: love, hate, jealousy, rage. But fear's the greatest of them all. Nothing reaches inside and grabs you by the guts the way fear does. Nothing else possesses you like that. It's a kind of illness, a fever, that takes you over. Ellie and her friends return from a camping trip to find their country at war. Learning together, they fight back - battling fear, rage, and the invading army that has stolen their land, seized their homes, taken their families, and destroyed their future. Continuing the story begun in Tomorrow When the War Began and The Dead of Night, John Marsden paints a shockingly realistic portrait of teenagers who take great risks to defend what is theirs.

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  • Title A Killing Frost
  • Author John Marsden
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st American ed
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-04-27
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780395837351 / 0395837359
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.7 x 1 in (22.10 x 14.48 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 780
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Australian
  • Library of Congress subjects Australia, War
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97002797
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Media reviews

“Marsden crafts one of the most exciting and harrowing sabotage sequences in YA literature...One cannot help but be struck by the delight and respect that Marsden holds for teenagers.” Booklist, ALA, Boxed Review

"The trilogy about Australia under siege that started with Tomorrow, When the War Began comes to a thrill-a-minute conclusion as the teen heroes continue their guerrilla tactics against totalitarian foes." Publishers Weekly

"An action-packed, enjoyable read." School Library Journal

Citations

  • Booklist, 05/15/1998, Page 1617
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/1998, Page 345
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 03/15/1998, Page 407
  • New York Times, 07/19/1998, Page 25
  • School Library Journal, 06/01/1998, Page 148
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