In Darkness

by Nick Lake

Book Overview

A stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Shorty is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching out to him across two hundred years of history. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619631229
• ISBN13: 9781619631229
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher