The Light Fantastic

by Sarah Combs

Hardcover, 2016

Library's review

Seven interwoven tales make up this story of students planning the unimaginable in schools across the nation. This book clearly points out the need for change in a sometimes frightening world.

Publication

Candlewick (2016), 320 pages

Description

Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML: Seven tightly interwoven narratives. Three harrowing hours. One fateful day that changes everything. Delaware, the morning of April 19. Senior Skip Day, and April Donovan's eighteenth birthday. Four days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the country is still reeling, and April's rare memory condition has her recounting all the tragedies that have cursed her birth month. And just what was that mysterious gathering under the bleachers about? Meanwhile, in Nebraska, Lincoln Evans struggles to pay attention in Honors English, distracted by the enigmatic presence of Laura Echols, capturer of his heart. His teacher tries to hold her class's interest, but she can't keep her mind off what Adrian George told her earlier. Over in Idaho, Phoebe is having second thoughts about the Plan mere hours before the start of a cross-country ploy led by an Internet savant known as the Mastermind. Is all her heartache worth the cost of the Assassins' machinations? The Light Fantastic is a tense, shocking, and beautifully wrought exploration of the pain and pathos of a generation of teenagers on the brinkâ??and the hope of moving from shame and isolation into the light of redemption.… (more)

Language

Original language

English

Pages

320

Physical description

320 p.; 8.56 inches

ISBN

0763678511 / 9780763678517

DDC/MDS

813.6
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