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Billy Thunder and the Night Gate - Isobelle Carmody Book Review

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Review Summary
Rage Winnoway's mother has been asleep since a terrible accident. In a quest to find a healing magic Rage and her animal friends- Bear, Elle, Goatee, Billy Thunder and Mr Walker travel through a strange gateway to Valley.
There they find that Valley is not paradise but a dark world where sneaky witch folk work forbidden macic. Rage desperately wants to go home, but the one person who can help has diappeared. Join Rage and her friends as they enter a fantasy world on their journey to help heal her mother. This is a brilliant tale of courage and transformation that will amaze and impress the minds of a young and old audience.

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Composition of Book
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%




Tone of book - sensitive (sigh....)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - exploring a wondrous planet or phenomena
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - cure/disease/bioweapon
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Family relations Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Physique - very athletic

Setting
Terrain - Mountains - Forests - Domed/Underground City
Earth setting: - during "Tolkien" (fairytime) times
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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