Having written over 35 books for young people, Monica Hughes is known as one of Canada's best writers for children and young adults. She was also a bank clerk in 1951, and a laboratory technician from 1952 to 1957. She was a dress designer in London England, and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe between the years 1948–1949. She married Glen Hughes on April 22, 1957, and together they had 4 children.īefore becoming a writer, Hughes had many other careers. After returning from the war, Hughes went back to school to study Meteorology. She joined the Military service, the Women's Royal Naval Service, from the years 1943–1946, cracking German codes. While in school, Hughes' academic studies were interrupted as a result of World War II. Hughes attended Edinburgh University from 1942 to 1943. In her school years, her teachers always encouraged her to write and join essay writing competitions. Both her parents worked at the University of Liverpool, where her father was a mathematician and her mother a biologist. She was the daughter of Phylis Fry and E.L Ince. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Monica Hughes lived in many different countries, including Egypt, Scotland, England and Zimbabwe. Carolyn Caywood, Virginia Beach Public LibraryĬopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. This sequel to Devil on My Back (Atheneum, 1985) is not as powerful as Hughes' ``Isis'' books (Atheneum), but is well worth purchase. The contrasting societies are starkly drawn but may stimulate thinking about good intentions producing evil results when those in power decide only they know what's best. Alienated teenagers who rescue everyone are always attractive protagonists to other teens, and this well-written story will be popular. Ruth guides an expedition to this Ark and is instrumental in breaking the power of its totalitarian computer. Ark Three is a democracy based on psychic communion, but the Ark Ruth discovers has used technology to create a slave state.
The Arks are domed communities set up when it became evident that America was on the verge of collapse, but, isolated thereafter for centuries, they have diverged greatly. Grade 6-9 Her unruly psychic powers make teen-age Ruth an outsider in the close society of Ark Three, but they allow her to receive thoughts from another post-holocaust community on the other side of the mountains.
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