Kya

Kya edited the description of Wonders of a Godless World Wednesday, October 21 2009.

• On an unnamed island, in a Gothic hospital sitting in the shadow of a volcano, a wordless orphan girl works on the wards housing the insane and the incapable. When a silent, unmoving and unnerving new patient - a foreigner - arrives at the hospital, strange phenomena occur, bizarre murders take place, and the lives of the patients and the island's inhabitants are thrown into turmoil. What happens between them is an extraordinary exploration of consciousness, reality and madness.

Kya created the book Wonders of a Godless World Wednesday, October 21 2009.

Kya edited the description of The Book of Rapture Wednesday, October 21 2009.

• Three children wake up in a basement room. They have been drugged and taken from their beds in the middle of the night. Now they are alone.

  Where are their parents? Who can they trust? The family has been betrayed to the government and Salt Cottage, their home on a clifftop above the ocean, is no longer safe. Their mother′s scientific work has put them all in danger. To protect them, she must let them go. She must put her faith in an old family friend -- and in her children′s own resilience and courage.

Kya created the book The Book of Rapture Wednesday, October 21 2009.

Kya edited the description of Jasper Jones Wednesday, October 21 2009.

• Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress.
  Jasper takes him through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.
  And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.

Kya created the book Jasper Jones Wednesday, October 21 2009.

Kya edited the description of The Crossing Saturday, September 19 2009.

• The Crossing is the first book in a stunning new trilogy that follows the fate of Maryam and her unlikely companions - Joseph, Ruth and Lazarus. This is fast, suspenseful drama underpinned by a powerful and moving story about love and loss. The people of One were, a small island in the Pacific, know that they are special - chosen to survive the deadly event that consumed the Earth. Now, from the rotting cruise ship Star of the Sea, the elite control the population - manipulating old texts to set themselves up as living 'gods'. But what the people of Onewere don't know is this: the leaders will stop at nothing to meet their own blood-thirsty needs. When Maryam crosses from child to woman, she must leave everything she has ever known and make a crossing of another kind. But life inside the ship is not as she had dreamed, and she is faced with the unthinkable: obey the leaders and very likely die, or turn her back on every belief she once held dear. *I love this book so much it feels like it has been written for me, it just hits the spot! I am very excited about it - Stacey *'Like '1984' for teenagers - direct, passionate and powerful' Margaret Mahy

Kya created the book The Crossing Saturday, September 19 2009.

Kya edited the contributors of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Tuesday, September 15 2009.

• Added a contributor: Maya Angelou: (Primary Author)

Kya submitted a request to combine 2 books, including Outcast, Thursday, September 3 2009.