Mortal Fire

by Elizabeth Knox

Book Overview

Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie's parents go away on a vacation, so they send her off on a trip of her own with her step-brother Sholto and his opinionated girlfriend Susan, who are interviewing the survivors of a strange coal mine disaster and researching local folklore in 1959 Southland, New Zealand. Canny is left to herself to wander in a mysterious and enchanting nearby valley, occupied almost entirely by children who all have the last name Zarene...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374388296
• ISBN13: 9780374388294
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary