![]() Her debut novel, Me, the Missing, and the Dead, was a Morris Award finalist in America and won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Jenny Valentine is an award-winning writer for Young Adults. Some of the twists are a little unbelievable, but the slow series of revelations, coupled with Valentine’s incisive exploration of identity and perception, add up to the kind of tense, nerve-wracking story that teens will race to finish. Her debut novel, Me, the Missing, and the Dead, was a Morris Award finalist in America and. Valentine ramps up the paranoia and mystery steadily, letting the story unfold with a grim inexorability. Now he’s caught in a delicate balance between knowing too little and asking the wrong questions. As he tries to pass in his new identity among the dysfunctional Roadnights, constantly fearful of giving himself away, Chapīegins to suspect that there’s more to Cassiel’s disappearance than meets the eye. Homeless, 16-year-old Chap is killing time in a London hostel when he’s presented with a coincidence-born opportunity of a lifetime: if he pretends to be Cassiel Roadnight, a teen who has been missing for two years and who looks just like Chap, Chap can have the life and family he’s always dreamed of. What starts as a case of mistaken identity turns into a bizarre mystery in this exhilarating thriller from Valentine (Broken Soup). ![]()
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