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Gr 7-Up This creepy, allegorical thriller by a Carnegie Medal-winning author grabs readers from the very first page. Kit, 15, and his parents are sailing in unfamiliar, fog-shrouded waters when their boat rams into jagged rocks. His parents don't believe Kit when he admits that he lost control of the helm after he saw an older man's face, identical to his own, beneath the waves. They manage to get to a nearby island that appears to be deserted until Kit spots a lone girl nimbly jumping from ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Kit is a normal teenage boy whose adolescent insecurities are reinforced by a large facial birthmark. On a sailing holiday, he and his parents make an emergency landing on the unmapped island of Skaer after a sudden storm disables their compasses and watches. Following a hostile encounter with the inhabitants—the last remnants of a fundamentalist sect—Kit's parents disappear, and he must unravel the island's mysteries to save th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More