Walk of the Spirits by Richie Tankersley Cusick (336 pages) - ”After losing everything in a Florida hurricane, seventeen-year-old Miranda and her mother move to her grandfather’s home in Louisiana, where she falls in with an interesting group of students, and discovers that she can communicate with spirits as her grandfather did.” A ghost story from one of the many Buffy authors.
Santa Claus in Baghdad: and Other Stories about Teens in the Arab World by Elsa Marston (200 pages) - ”This engaging collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and a Palestinian refugee camp engagingly depicts young people’s experiences growing up in the Middle East,” says the back blurb. Don’t let the cover put you off; this looks interesting.
The Magician of Hoad by Margaret Mahy (447 pages (winning the most pages competition)) – “A hero, an ageing magician, a farm boy, a noble daughter and a mad prince meet on the edge of a city of tents. So begins an intricate tale of a boy with a troublesome eye, who is capable of extraordinary things.” The dust jacket describes this as a “superbly cerebral fantasy”, which I like the sound of - you might have to think a bit while you’re reading.
Nation by Terry Pratchett (384 pages) - It’s here finally (amid excellent reviews). The first sentence is: “Imo set out one day to catch some fish, but there was no sea”. Interesting (that’s not just a minor setback, really). As mentioned earlier, let us know what you think!
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