A Flicker of Courage

by Deb Caletti

Printz Award Honoree and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti debuts in middle grade with a tongue-in-cheek hero's journey set in a town full of magic, mayhem, lighthouses... and evil.

The story takes place in a world much like ours, but at the same time not at all like ours, in which Vlad Luxor--a capricious, vain, infantile tyrant--rules over a town with an iron fist. He's an emperor with no clothes, but woe is the person who points...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1984813056
• ISBN13: 9781984813053
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7