(Dyslexia-friendly)
Marcus Sedgwick crafts a characteristically unsettling mystery exploring teen relationships and our connection to the world around us in his gripping Barrington Stoke debut.
(Dyslexia-friendly)
Marcus Sedgwick crafts a characteristically unsettling mystery exploring teen relationships and our connection to the world around us in his gripping Barrington Stoke debut.
Marcus Sedgwick crafts a characteristically unsettling mystery exploring teen relationships and our connection to the world around us in this suspenseful and eerie drama.
WRATH: extreme anger or rage
Cassie Cotton has always been unusual, a bit different – but this only makes her more intriguing to her classmate Fitz.
Cassie can hear a noise that most people don’t notice or recognise, and she believes it’s a sound that shows the Earth is in distress, damaged by human activity that is causing climate change.
When this belief leads to her being ridiculed and bullied at school, Cassie disappears. Fitz is determined to find her, but he has no idea where to start looking, or if he’ll be in time to help her…
Particularly suitable for readers aged 11+ with a reading age of 8.
Short-listed for Brilliant Book Award 2023 Short-listed for Archway Learning Trust Book of the Year 2023 Long-listed for The Juniper Book Award 2023 (UK) Long-listed for Carnegie Medal for Writing 2023
“"Such a delicately wrought and cleverly done piece of climate fiction, told through the lens of teenagers' lives. Really beautiful" -- Lauren James, author”
"Such a delicately wrought and cleverly done piece of climate fiction, told through the lens of teenagers' lives. Really beautiful" – Lauren James, author
"A brilliantly unsettling novel that readers will race through!" – Sarah Crossan, author
"Meaningful. Powerful. Wonderful" – Tom Palmer, author
"So, so good. A treasure. Exactly as brilliant as I thought it would be" – Dan Smith, author
"A wonder of a book … brilliantly clever, eerie tale by the legendary Marcus Sedgwick." – Emma Carroll, author
"Fast-paced and engaging … Set during the Covid-19 pandemic, Sedgwick accurately conveys how the combined threat of climate change, and the pandemic negatively affected people’s lives." – Children's Books Ireland
"Standard Sedgwick. Brilliant and everything the children’s book industry requires." – NetGalley review
Marcus Sedgwick is the bestselling author of over thirty books. He has been shortlisted seven times for the Carnegie and other major prizes such as the Costa, Guardian and Blue Peter Book Award. In 2014 he received the eminent Printz Award, for his novel Midwinterblood. Marcus has also received two Printz Honors, for Revolver in 2011 and The Ghosts of Heaven in 2016, giving him the most citations to date for America's most notable book prize for writing for young adults. The Monsters We Deserve was published by Zephyr in 2018.marcussedgwick.com@marcussedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick crafts a characteristically unsettling mystery exploring teen relationships and our connection to the world around us in his gripping Barrington Stoke debut. From the multi-award-winning author of Midwinterblood and The Ghosts of Heaven comes a suspenseful, gripping tale about teen life and relationships, exploring our wavering connection to the world around us. WRATH: extreme anger or rage Cassie Cotton has always been unusual, a bit different - but this only makes her more intriguing to her classmate Fitz. Cassie can hear a noise that most people don't notice or recognise, and she believes it's a sound that shows the Earth is in distress, damaged by human activity that is causing climate change. When this belief leads to her being ridiculed and bullied at school, Cassie disappears. Fitz is determined to find her, but he has no idea where to start looking, or if he'll be in time to help her...
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