Roar
$23.07
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
12 January 2026
Summary
Roar: A Novel of Resistance and Revenge
Rizu lives a comfortable life in the gated middle class suburbs of Delhi; her biggest worries are getting her homework done and keeping up with the mean girls at school. That is, until she’s accused of being a witch, and the hysteria that follows triggers a chain reaction that ends in tragedy. Life as she knew it changes forever.
Alone and fearing for her life, Rizu runs away and joins a group of pink sari-wearing, stick-wielding women…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241647622 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241647622 |
| Author: | Manjeet Mann |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 12 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 292g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Manjeet Mann
Manjeet Mann is a multi-award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her debut YA novel, Run Rebel, was shortlisted for the 2021 Carnegie Medal and won the CILIP Carnegie Shadowers’ Choice Award, the UKLA Award, the Diverse Book Award, and the Sheffield Children’s Book Award, as well as being named a Guardian Best Book of 2020. Her second novel, The Crossing, won the 2022 Costa Children’s Book Award, the UKLA Award, and was Overall Winner at the Sheffield Children’s Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for numerous other prizes, including the 2022 Carnegie Medal, Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and YA Book Award. Manjeet writes picture books too, including Small’s Big Dream, which won the Readers’ Choice Award at the Diverse Book Awards. She adapted Run Rebel for the stage with Pilot Theatre, earning Best Production at the 2025 Off West End Stage Awards. Manjeet lives in Scotland.
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