Her books have been shortlisted for awards in New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Belgium and Germany. : The Juniper Game (POINT) (9780590447294) by Jordan, Sherryl and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
Jordan has won a number of prestigious awards. The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time (1997, with Teresa Patterson) is a guide.
Her knowledge of sign language and her experience working as a teacher aide with deaf children is a clear influence on her historical fiction, The Raging Quiet. Her early work in children’s literature was as an illustrator, and she has written picture books, middle grade fiction, and young adult fiction. Her adult life has been spent in Tauranga. Tell us a little about the story of your latest book. Jordan talks to us about her latest novel, The King’s Nightingale. Many of Sherryl’s books have been translated into other languages. New Zealand author Sherryl Jordan, most well-known for The Juniper Game. She lives not far from the sea in a little wooden cottage with medieval front doors.Jordan was born on 8 June 1949 in Hawera, New Zealand, and grew up in Normanby, near Mount Taranaki. Then followed The Juniper Game and Winter of Fire and her much-loved, funny middle-grade series about Denzil, a hapless young medieval wizard. historical fantasy YA by award-winning New Zealand author Sherryl Jordan. Among her books are Winter of Fire, Wolf-Woman, and The Juniper Game. Marnies dealings with Raven - her difficulties, frustration, despair, joy, and triumph - are all things I have experienced. For several years I worked with profoundly deaf children in schools, and spoke with them through signs. and the 2001 Buxtehuder Bulle Prize for Best Young Person's Book of the Year for The Juniper Game.
About the Author Sherryl Jordan writes: All my life I have felt great affinity with deaf people, and have loved sign language. SHERRYL JORDAN is a children's fantasy writer. But the suspicious villagers see Ravens transformation as evidence of witchcraft, and suddenly Marnie finds herself facing an ordeal that threatens not only her future with Raven, but her very life. She lives not far from the sea in a little wooden cottage with medieval front doors. Marnie makes a remarkable discovers about Raver, whom she renames Raven, and the two forge a deep bond that begins to heal her own bruised heart. Among her books are Winter of Fire, Wolf-Woman, and The Juniper Game. Spurned by the townsfolk who suspect her involvement in her husbands death, she has only two friends: the local priest and the madman known as Raver, even more of an outcast than Marnie herself. Book Synopsis OUTSIDERS Widowed just two days after her unwilling marriage to a man twice her age, Marnie finds herself an outsider in the remote seaside village of Torcurra.
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