Publication
Viking Books for Young Readers (2014), Edition: First Edition, 416 pages
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Awards
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2017)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 2016)
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing (Nominee — 2015)
Independent Booksellers' Book Prize (Shortlist — Children's Fiction — 2014)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — High School — 2017)
Kids' Book Choice Awards (Finalist — 2015)
Branford Boase Award (Longlist — 2015)
Waterstones Children's Book Prize (Winner — Teen — 2015)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2015)
CCBC Choices (2015)
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (Top Ten — 2015)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender boy) is bisexual.
Publisher's Summary: In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and sixteen-year-old Nathan, who is both. Nathan’s father is the world’s most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted from all sides. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, Nathan must escape before his seventeenth birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch—or else he will die. But how can Nathan find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is no one safe to trust—not even family, not even the girl he loves?