A Financial Times Book of the Year
Nominated for The Yoto Carnegies Medal for Writing 2024
Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Prize in 2023
An award-winning climate fiction novel that explores unlikely friendships as a group of children with disabilities find themselves at the heart of an eco-mystery.
On a remote Scottish island, 14-year-old Max’s life is changed forever when he loses his hearing in a boating accident. He has to navigate a new silent world alone—even his parents don’t understand that wearing a hearing aid doesn’t mean he can hear clearly. On top of that, he’s placed...
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A Financial Times Book of the Year
Nominated for The Yoto Carnegies Medal for Writing 2024
Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Prize in 2023
An award-winning climate fiction novel that explores unlikely friendships as a group of children with disabilities find themselves at the heart of an eco-mystery.
On a remote Scottish island, 14-year-old Max’s life is changed forever when he loses his hearing in a boating accident. He has to navigate a new silent world alone—even his parents don’t understand that wearing a hearing aid doesn’t mean he can hear clearly. On top of that, he’s placed in a special educational needs class surrounded by kids he once picked on.
When people start acting strangely and Max’s hearing aid picks up odd sounds from a new wind farm off the coast, he suspects a sinister scientist is using wind turbines to experiment on the islanders. Could being different be an advantage? Max enlists the help of his classmates to shut down the government’s secret test before it spins out of control…
- ISBN10 1915584612
- ISBN13 9781915584618
- Publish Date 23 April 2024 (first published 23 September 2022)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Neem Tree Press Limited
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 240
- Language English