Description
| Product ID: | 9781788951227 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Boy I Am |
| Authors: | Author: K. L. Kettle |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 13 years |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In the House of Boys, young men are auctioned off to the female elite. Sixteen-year-old Jude wants more than this, but how far is he prepared to go for a chance of freedom? They say we’re dangerous. But we’re not that different. Jude is running out of time. Once a year, lucky young men in the House of Boys are auctioned to the female elite. But if Jude fails to be selected before he turns seventeen, a future deep underground in the mines awaits. Yet ever since the death of his best friend at the hands of the all-powerful Chancellor, Jude has been desperate to escape the path set out for him. Finding himself entangled in a plot to assassinate the Chancellor, he finally has a chance to avenge his friend and win his freedom. But at what price? A speculative YA thriller, tackling themes of traditional gender roles and power dynamics, for fans of Malorie Blackman, Louise O’Neill and THE POWER. "Brutal, uncompromising and edge-of-your-seat action all the way through" – Alex Bell, author of FROZEN CHARLOTTE "The best kind of up-all-night dystopian YA, thought-provoking, different and above all, an extraordinarily exciting story, whose main character, Jude, will stay with me for a very long time" Lucy Coats "It''s a gutsy, intelligent, tension-building tale. A bit Handmaid''s Tale, a bit Mad Max, and a creature all its own." Sinead O''Hart, author of THE EYE OF THE NORTH "Mind blowingly good. Love it. It’s going to get readers thinking." Dr Vanessa Harbour "A dark, thought-provoking dystopian that is gorgeously written too" Amy McCaw, author of MINA AND THE UNDEAD "It’s so gripping and tense and thought-provoking" Ben Oliver, author of THE LOOP |
| Imprint Name: | Stripes Publishing |
| Publisher Name: | Little Tiger Press Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-01-07 |
