Three Strikes Award-winning author

A chilling collection of three novellas from YA authors Lucy Christopher, Kat Ellis and Rhian Ivory. Three Strikes is a collection of three novellas from three star YA authors: ‘The Darkness’ by Lucy Christopher: Everyone has disappeared. Ebony writes by candlelight. Is she the only one left? Then she spots a red light blinking at her from the darkness. A camera? ‘The Twins of Blackfin’ by Kat Ellis is a prequel to the popular Blackfin Sky. Every evening Bo visits her best friend Sky’s grave. One night she hears a girl’s voice. Following it leads her to a journal and a crypt. ‘Matchstick Girl’ by Rhian Ivory is a modern YA retelling of The Little Match Girl. Out busking, runaway Nia is mugged and left badly hurt in a tunnel. All she has is three matches, and she starts seeing pictures in the light… A story of grief, love and music. i?1/4i?1/4i?1/4

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781910080863

Publisher

Firefly Press Ltd

Date published

October 4th, 2018

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.2; Upper years; 13.0 points

Other details

272 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Lucy Christopher

Lucy Christopher, author of Stolen and Flyaway, was born in Wales but grew up in Australia, living in Melbourne from the age of nine until she completed her undergraduate degree at Melbourne University.

After various attempts at being an actor, a coffee maker, a waitress and a nature guide, she moved back to the UK to earn a distinction in a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University. Lucy took on part-time work as a university lecturer at Bath Spa University, teaching on the undergraduate and the MA creative writing courses, and is currently undertaking a PhD to explore the ways that Australian literature represents wild places, particularly in its writing for young adults.

Lucy’s debut novel, Stolen, was written as part of this PhD and it has gone on to win the prestigious Branford Boase and the Hull Children’s Book Award. In addition, Stolen was shortlisted in the USA for an American Library Association award for Best Fiction for Young Adults and a Children’s Book Council of Australia award. In the UK, it was on the shortlist for both the Coventry and Leeds Book Awards and the Lancashire and Southern Schools Book Awards. It was also on the 2010 longlist for the Carnegie Medal.

Lucy is currently working on her third novel for The Chicken House.