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| Category: Fiction:Young Adult:Fantasy |
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| About the Book | |
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Dark, mysterious female creatures known as Banshees inhabit the first world. Their piercing screams announce the approach of death and a journey to the other world. Perched atop a mountain of skulls, like a fearsome bird of prey, sits their brooding queen goddess, Morrigan. She is a dangerous, yet hauntingly beautiful creature with long, flowing hair and intense, probing eyes. She reigns supreme over her black-robed minions, while angrily brooding the loss of a darkly powerful bracelet. An ocean away lies Theo’s world, where he struggles with the curse of being small for his age, younger than his classmates, and decidedly unable to do anything cool. He remains blissfully unaware that his simple life is about to become more complicated and much more dangerous. Just weeks into the school year, something painful happens in his family that gives him the ability to see ghosts, but even more terrifying, to see Banshees. This dramatically complicates his interactions with family, friends, and even enemies. It leads to Theo discovering new powers, confronting a formidable adversary, testing new friendships, and forming an unlikely alliance as events spiral toward a deadly confrontation.
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| About the Author | |
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Robert Tucker typically writes female detective mysteries, but this novel represents a shift in genre. The protagonists are teenagers living in a suburb south of Boston during the 1960s. The author drew inspiration from his Irish family history and rich folklore to create Darkness Has A Name. |