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Rag a Bone and a Hank of Hair
Rh Value Publishing
Hardcover (Random House Value Publishing, June 13, 1984)In the twenty-third century, when children have become scarce, an unusually, bright boy is sent to live with an experimental family of reborn 1940 Londoners.
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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
Nicholas FISK
Hardcover (Crown, March 15, 1982)None
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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
Nicholas Fisk
Paperback (Oxford University Press, Sept. 15, 1999)A gripping science-fiction novel set at the end of the 22nd century. The birthrate is falling following a nuclear power plant leak, and the government have begun manufacturing 'Reborns', new people from old. Brin, an arrogant twelve-year-old, is sent to live with a Reborn family, who have beenrecreated from 1940, to monitor the experiment. Initially he fears and dislikes them, but gradually becomes friends and tries to save them when the government decide to terminate the experiment.
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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
Nicholas Fisk
Paperback (Oxford University Press, Nov. 9, 2000)A thrilling futuristic novel set at the end of the 22nd century. The government is cloning new people and has manufactured a 1940s wartime family who are unaware that nothing they know is real. Our hero is sent to monitor these 'Reborns' and gradually becomes aware of a horrible underlyingsecret. A brilliant plot twist at the end turns the book on its head.An exciting sci-fi novel which will appeal especially to boy readers, with the topical subject of cloning. This extraordinarily prophetic 80's novel, which was published in the Oxford Children's Modern Classics series in 1999, is now reissued in a smaller, mass-market paperback format.
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A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair
Nicholas Fisk
Paperback (Puffin Books, Dec. 9, 1982)None
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