Mortal Fire

Knox, Elizabeth

Notes
434 p New Zealand author Summary: When sixteen-year-old Canny begrudgingly joins her older step brother on a trip to research a strange coal mine disaster that happened thirty years earlier, she wanders into a nearby enchanted valley, occupied almost entirely by children who all have the same last name and who can perform a type of magic that makes things better and stronger than they already are. With the help of the alluring and somewhat threatening Ghislain Zarene, who is held hostage by a powerful, out-of-control spell for his part in that mine accident long ago, Canny starts to untangle they mysteries of the valley - only to find that its secrets are her own, too.

AWARDS:
Winner of New Zealand Post Children's Book Award: Young Adult Fiction 2014. -- Shortlisted for LIANZA Children's Book Awards: Young Adult Fiction Award 2014.
Additional Notes
Grown-up Harry Potter
Challenging read
Identity
Librarian's Miscellania
Y11
Y12
Location edition Bar Code due date
Fiction Shelves A40595999
Genre:Fantasy
call #:KNO
ISBN:9781877579530
pub:2013
Subjects
Magic - Fiction
Unexplained phenomena - Fiction
Coal mining - Accidents - Fiction
Fantasy
Award winning
Environmental issues