Justice and Her Brothers This is a tantalizing, hypnotic novel that some will call fiction, some science fiction, and others reality. Justice and Her Brothers is an engrossing, challenging novel. It presents a picture of the world as it may become - indeed, as it may already be. "Reading Virginia Hamilton is like being shot out of a cannon into the Milky Way. Sometimes just a phrase sends you off, an image or a scene, but invariably at the end of a book you marvel: look how high I've been just on words! Here is Miss Hamilton at her best, plunging her characters into unique situations in order to work out the ambivalence and antagonisms of family relationships which she understands so well. She reaches over the precipice and risks even more than usual when she gives the identicals the power of telepathic communication with each other." Jean Fritz, The New York Times

Dustland The unit: Justice, her identical twin brothers Thomas and Levi, and Dorian - four children inexorably linked by their supersensory powers. How do they make their strange journeys out of the present, into a weird, barren land they call Dustland? And why are they drawn into the future on an as yet unidentified search? Ms. Hamilton continues the adventures of these four extraordinary children, precursors of a new race, in a totally engrossing sequel that more than lives up to the excitement and originality of Justice and Her Brothers.

The Gathering In Justice and Her Brothers, the first volume of this trilogy, the four protagonists find that they are inexorably linked through their supersensory powers. In Dustland, the second volume, these precursors of a new race are drawn into the future and make their strange journey into a barren land. In The Gathering they are engaged in battle with an entity known as Mal, who controls the future, but whose immense power has gone awry. One of the world's leading writers for young people brings her compelling saga to its stunning conclusion. "Virginia Hamilton has heightened the standards for children's literature as few other authors have. She does not address children or the state of children so much as she explores with them, sometimes ahead of them, the full possibilities of boundless imagination. Even her farthest-flung thoughts, however, are carefully leashed to the craft of writing." - Betsy Hearne, Twentieth Century Children's Writers