by Margaret Mahy · Mammoth · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780416968507
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«Catalogue of the Universe» is the young adult novel by Margaret Mahy, published by Mammoth in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Angela May, at seventeen, searches for the father she never knew, convinced that her parents' love lives in her. When she finds him, the reaction is not what she expected and her certainties shatter. Her friend Tycho Potter, secretly in love, faces his own doubts; from that friendship an unexpected comfort is born for both.
The novel won the Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association in 2005; it was originally published in 1985 and this edition is from 1987.
Reading aimed at a young adult audience that combines identity search, family relationships, and romance.
Margaret Mahy was a New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. Many of her story plots have strong supernatural elements but her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories. At her death she was one of thirty writers to win the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for her "lasting contribution to children's literature".
