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Magonia

Magonia 1

by Maria Dahvana Headley
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/05/2015
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An epic and original YA fantasy that is funny, intelligent, surprising and sad and snarky and lovely. Maria Dahvana Headley's soaring YA debut is a fiercely intelligent, multilayered fantasy where Neil Gaiman's Stardust meets John Green's The Fault in Our Stars in a story about a girl caught between two worlds . . . two races . . . and two destinies.

Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak-to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name.

Only her best friend, Jason, listens. Jason, who's always been there. Jason, for whom she might have more-than-friendly feelings. But before Aza can consider that thrilling idea, something goes terribly wrong. Aza is lost to our world-and found, by another. Magonia.

Above the clouds, in a land of trading ships, Aza is not the weak and dying thing she was. In Magonia, she can breathe for the first time. Better, she has immense power-but as she navigates her new life, she discovers that war between Magonia and Earth is coming. In Aza's hands lies fate of the whole of humanity-including the boy who loves her but where do her loyalties lie. Ages: 12+

ISBN:
9780062391674
9780062391674
Category:
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-05-2015
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
226x154x21mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley is a New York Times bestselling novelist, memoirist, and editor, most recently of Magonia, Queen of Kings, and the anthology Unnatural Creatures (coeditor with Neil Gaiman).

Her short fiction has been nominated for the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards. She lives in Brooklyn in an apartment with a seven-foot stuffed crocodile and constellations on the ceiling.

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With comparisons made to some of our favourite authors "Magonia" was quickly snatched up as a must read, and this enchanting and original debut doesn't disappoint. Told from two characters' points of view you are taken on a journey between earth and ships in the sky. Headley's writing is vibrant and effortlessly creates distinction between each world.

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