Throwaways
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This month our cover features The Wheel of Surya (see Authorgraph for details), with artwork by Caroline Binch. The paperback of Jamila Gavin’s book was published by Mammoth in July 1994 and we’re most grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.
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In the near future, the gap between rich and poor has left many children abandoned - throwaways - a name that catches their place in an economic system where they live amongst the waste of the rest of society. We follow 11-year-old Sky and her little brother, Chip, as they make their way in the community of throwaways. It's a very powerful story which despite awful detail and events - particularly the imagined smell of the waste the children sift through for food and tradable things - is full of optimism about the resilience of children and their innate spirit of community.
