Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn (author)

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2014

If the cover doesn’t weird you out, the story will. Jekyll and Hyde in a real, modern setting. A twisted boy whose darkest fear is of himself: the wolfish predator within. Don’t say my name, he says. You have no idea who I really am. It’s true. Nobody really knows Andrew Winters. Least of all himself. Part of him is Win: the lonely teenager exiled to a remote boarding school after a family tragedy. The guy who shuts the whole world out; who fears the savage within. The other part is Drew: the angry boy who feeds on violence. Who secretly loves the darkness. And who, one fateful summer, was part of something so terrible it came close to destroying him.

This book contains mature content.