Calling the Gods — Jack Lasenby

When the challenge is to save not just yourself but an entire community, the stakes are high.

--thrown hard on the bottom boards, I stared up at distorted mouths, faces so red I could feel their heat. they stank of rage and of something else; several frothed at the mouth; their howls drowned the clatter and shriek of gulls swerving and tilting above the mast.--

Banishment is the cruellest punishment, and Selene is being driven out unjustly by her own people. Set in a New Zealand both recognizable and strangely different, CALLING THE GODS is a novel for older readers, a story of violence, love, and courage, of leadership and betrayal, of the extraordinary human ability to adapt and survive, a tale of a young woman's heroic persistence against impossible odds. Ages: 13+