“A combination road trip story, SF tale, and adventure yarn…Delivers action, conspiracy, and betrayal alongside a meditation on love, family connection, and humanity.” Publishers Weekly
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lorna loves her adoptive sister, Callie. But Callie can’t say “I love you” back. In fact, Callie can’t say anything at all.
Because Callie is an Iceling—one of hundreds of teens who were discovered sixteen years ago on a remote Arctic island, all of them lacking the ability to speak or understand any known human language.
Mysterious and panicked events lead to the two sisters embarking on a journey to the north, and now Lorna starts to see that there’s a lot more to Callie’s origin story than she’d been led to believe. Little does she know what’s in store, and that she’s about to uncover the terrifying secret about who—and what—Callie really is.
Praise
“A combination road trip story, SF tale, and adventure yarn…Delivers action, conspiracy, and betrayal alongside a meditation on love, family connection, and humanity.” Publishers Weekly
“This is a poetic and unusual debut with a wry, loyal narrator and one ultimate truth: what makes family, as Lorna well knows, isn’t always blood.” Booklist
“There’s some classic and enjoyable sci-fi here that could be straight out of a 1950s film…Lorna is a witty but sincere narrator, and the heart of the book is her love for a sibling she doesn’t understand…An old-school serial cliffhanger ensures that hooked readers…tune in for the next episode.” BCCB
Details
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Release Day | Dec 12, 2016 |
| Release Date | December 13, 2016 |
| Release Date Machine | 1481587200 |
| Imprint | Blackstone Publishing |
| Provider | Blackstone Publishing |
| Categories | Teen & Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy, History & Culture, Children/YA, YA, Fiction - All, Fiction - Child, Science Fiction |
Author Bio
Sasha Stephenson holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Narrator Bio
Katie Schorr is an actor and writer in New York. Her one-woman show, Take Me. Seriously, ran for six months at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and she performs throughout New York in new works at the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ars Nova, among other theaters. She has appeared on VH1’s Best Week Ever and costars in the web series Head in the Oven with Saturday Night Live actor Bill Hader. Her audiobook credits include narrating the novels in Alyson Noel’s bestselling Immortals series. Of her work on the series, AudioFile magazine has said, “Narrator Katie Schorr has a wonderfully raspy, youthful voice, which she puts to good effect on the cast of teenage characters.”
Overview
Seventeen-year-old Lorna loves her adoptive sister, Callie. But Callie can’t say “I love you” back. In fact, Callie can’t say anything at all.
Because Callie is an Iceling—one of hundreds of teens who were discovered sixteen years ago on a remote Arctic island, all of them lacking the ability to speak or understand any known human language.
Mysterious and panicked events lead to the two sisters embarking on a journey to the north, and now Lorna starts to see that there’s a lot more to Callie’s origin story than she’d been led to believe. Little does she know what’s in store, and that she’s about to uncover the terrifying secret about who—and what—Callie really is.
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