The Returners
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Overview
London teenager Will Hodge is miserable. His mother is dead, his father’s political leanings have grown radical, and his friends barely talk to him. To top it off, he’s having nightmares about things like concentration camps. Then Will notices he’s being followed by a group of people who claim to know him from another time in history. It turns out they are Returners, reincarnated people who carry with them the memory of atrocities they have witnessed in the past. Will realizes that he, too, is a Returner. But something about his memories is different, and with dawning horror, Will suspects that he wasn’t just a witness to the events, he was instrumental in making them happen. Set in the near future, with the world on the verge of a new wave of ethnic cleansing, Will must choose to confront the cruelty he’s known in his past lives, or be doomed to repeat it...
In the spirt of The Giver, this chilling standalone novel chronicles a teen’s experience when he learns that he’s one of a handful of people who are memory keepers to some of the worst events in history.
Gemma Malley’s new standalone novel asks penetrating questions about the tipping point of violence and cruelty in a teen’s world-and what it means to confront man’s worst impulses.
Gemma is known for stories that provoke debate about topical issues. The Returners is an ambitious, unsettling novel that sends a strong cautionary message about genocides-past, present, and future.
Accounts will sell this to fans of Lois Lowry, Meg Rosoff, Suzanne Collins, Neal Schusterman, and Scott Westerfeld .
Excellent discussion starter about responsiblity and intervention throughout history, from the Holocaust to Darfur.
Praise for Gemma Malley:
"The author addresses the moral and ethical implications of mortality...the fast pace and exciting plot make it a page turner. " -SLJ on The Resistance.
"Like books in Margaret Peterson Haddix’s The Shadow Children series, Malley’s gripping first novel imagines the ramifications of official population controls." -Booklist on The Declaration
"Thought-provoking...The Declaration paints an unsettling picture of what might happen." -Wall Street Journal
- Title: The Returners
- Author: Gemma Malley
- Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781599908038, 9781599904436, 1599904438, 1599908034
- Resource ID: LLS:9781599908038
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:30:29Z
Gemma Malley studied philosophy at Reading University before working as a journalist. She is the author of The Declaration and The Resistance, and lives in London with her husband and two young children.