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Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas
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Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas is an eco-warrior's journey to save the world in this multi-layered, award-winning dystopian graphic novel. Kidnapped by time-travelling ninjas, Helen is thrust into the year 2355 - a ruined future with roving gangs and 'Peace Balls', giant humming devices that enslave...
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Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas is an eco-warrior's journey to save the world in this multi-layered, award-winning dystopian graphic novel.
Kidnapped by time-travelling ninjas, Helen is thrust into the year 2355 - a ruined future with roving gangs and 'Peace Balls', giant humming devices that enslave and control people's minds.
The Go-Go Ninjas have one goal - to destroy the Peace Balls. They believe that Helen knows how.
Can Helen use her knowledge of the past to help them save the future?
An electrifying graphic novel by award-winning authors.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780143771241
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 July 2018
Country: New Zealand
Imprint: Penguin Books (NZ)
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 165.0mm
Height: 230.0mm
Weight: 670g
Pages: 264
About the Author
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR- Ant Sang is one of New Zealand's most acclaimed cartoonists and graphic novelists, whose books have been published in NZ, North America, the UK and France. His bestselling graphic novel Shaolin Burning won an Honour Award at the 2012 NZ Post Children's Book Awards and his cult series the Dharma Punks was published in graphic novel format in 2014. He is perhaps best known as one of the creators of the television series bro'Town, which ran for five seasons. Ant lives in Auckland. ABOUT THE AUTHOR- Michael Bennett (Ngati Pikiao, Ngati Whakaue) is an award-winning New Zealand screenwriter and author. In 2013 he was awarded Best Documentary Screenplay for his documentary on the Teina Pora case, The Confessions of Prisoner T. He went on to publish In Dark Places in 2016, which won Best Non-Fiction Book at the Ngaio Marsh Awards and Best Biography/History at the Nga Kupu Ora Awards 2017. Michael lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and is Head of Screenwriting at South Seas Film School.
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