From award winning Children's author, Jenny Moore (Pdelai and the Varmint and Emba Oak and the Terrible Tomorrows - comes an exciting new novel for young adults aged 12-16.
Slettbyrd will transport you to snowy climes, to a distant land gripped by fear and prejudice and to a teenage boy who will do everything he can to protect the people he loves.
Ninety-nine years of winter.
Ninety-nine years since the first white-haired, three-thumbed slettbyrd – the scourge of the Gjördish people – was born.
Ninety-nine years since the red-cloaked Slettseeker arrived to destroy every last slettbyrd child…
…with Janeck’s baby sister next on the list.
To save her, 14-year-old Janeck Potetsky will have to relearn everything he thought he knew about the world. He’ll have to take on the wild, snowy wastelands and the brutal prejudices of a century-long regime. He’ll have to defeat the all-powerful Slettseeker… or die trying.
- ISBN13 9781915758071
- Publish Date 24 November 2024
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint ZunTold
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English