A01=Veronica Peyton
action
adventure
adventure books for girls 9-12
Author_Veronica Peyton
Category1=Kids
Category=NL-YF
Category=YFB
COP=United Kingdom
dystopia
dystopian
eq_bestseller
eq_childrens
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_teenage-young-adult
fantasy
fly by night
Format=BC
frances hardinge
HMM=198
IMPN=Corgi Childrens
ISBN13=9780552573535
mortal engines
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20150806
philip reeve
Price=€5 to €10
PS=Active
PUB=Penguin Random House Children's UK
sci-fi
science fiction
SMM=22
Subject=Children's & Teenage Fiction & True Stories
survival stories
terry pratchett
WG=249
WMM=129
young adult
young adult fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780552573535
- Weight: 249g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Ten-year-old Silo Zyco hasn’t had the easiest start to life.
His father was (probably) ‘Aquinus the Accursed’ - wanted for dog-theft, whereabouts unknown.
His relatives all perished in a disaster involving a terrible wave and lots of mud. All he has inherited is the family reputation for thieving, and webbed feet.
And his only friend has been killed, tragically mistaken for a large rodent.
But Silo does have one thing that others envy. He can see things. Things that will happen in the future. And the people in the Capital are looking to recruit children just like him.
An incredible adventure is about to begin . . .
V. Peyton was raised in an obscure Essex village and moved to London as soon as was feasibly possible. She was a graphic designer for a while then taught English in a variety of unglamorous foreign locations, mostly in Asia. She turned to writing after a five year stint in Holloway Prison (as a librarian not an inmate).
