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Title: IN DARKNESS
By: Nick Lake
Format: Hardback

List price: £12.99


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ISBN 10: 1408819945
ISBN 13: 9781408819944
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 5 January, 2012
Pages: 352
Description: Shorty is given a choice. But is he man enough to make it? An audacious and astounding novel that grips the heart and the imagination
Synopsis: In darkness, I count my blessings like Manman taught me.One: I am alive. Two: there is no two. In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, a boy is trapped beneath the rubble of a ruined hospital, thirsty, terrified and alone. Shorty is a child of the slums, a teenage boy who has seen enough violence to last a lifetime, and who has been inexorably drawn into the world of the gangsters who rule Site Soley; men who dole out money with one hand and death with the other. But Shorty has a secret: a flame of revenge that blazes inside him and a burning wish to find the twin sister he lost seven years ago. And he is marked. Marked in a way that links him to Toussaint l'Ouverture, the Haitian rebel who led the slave revolt and faced down Napoleon to force the French out of Haiti two hundred years ago. As he grows weaker, Shorty relives the journey that took him to the hospital, with a bullet wound in his arm. In his visions and memories he hopes to find the strength to survive - perhaps then Shorty and Toussaint can find a way to be free ...
Reader Age: From 12
US Grade: From Ninth Grade to Twelfth Grade
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Prizes: Winner of Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 2013.
Returns: Returnable
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