her work most widely held in participating libraries, by a wide margin. It is a dystopian novel set on Earth in year 2154. Her last book was The Maze (2002). It features a female protagonist and two bullies magically placed in a maze, where they all depend on her for rescue. Awards The Keeper of the Isis Light won the 2000 Phoenix Award from the Children's Literature Association as the best English-language children's book that did not win a major award when it was originally published twenty years earlier. That is named for the mythical bird phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes, to suggest the book's rise from obscurity. Invitation to the Game (Toronto: HarperCollins, 1990) won the Hal Clement Award as the year's best science fiction novel for young adults. Hughes also won the Vicky Metcalf Award, Alberta Culture Juvenile Novel Award, Bay's Beaver Award, and Alberta R. Ross Annett Award. Works References External links Monica Hughes at Fantastic Fiction 1925 births 2003 deaths Canadian science fiction writers English science fiction writers Canadian children's writers English children's writers Officers of the Order of Canada British emigrants to Canada Writers from Edmonton Novelists from Liverpool Women science fiction and fantasy writers British women children's writers Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 20th-century British novelists 20th-century British women writers