Kirsty Applebaum
1) Lifeling
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Lonny Quicke and his younger brother finally leave their hidden forest home and venture into the nearby town of Farstoke, where Lonny discovers that, at first glance, the people of Farstoke are not cruel and selfish, but as he debates revealing his secret ability, he wonders whether his new friends are really as kind as they seem.
2) The Middler
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hrs 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie lives in orderly Fennis Wick, protected from the outside world by a boundary. Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and special, a hero who will soon go off to fight in the war. But Maggie?s just a middle child, a middler, often invisible and ignored, even by her own family. When she chances upon a wanderer girl in hiding, she decides she wants to be a hero like her brother and sets out to capture the intruder. But once Maggie peeks past the...