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A fifteen-year-old boy who has spent his entire life trying to avoid attention finds himself in the middle of a millenia-old struggle between titanic forces when he is simultaneously recruited by an exclusive prep school and followed by sinister agents.
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Mark Frost, Mark Frost
- First published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Publishers UK, Random House Books for Young Readers, Random House Children's Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375871061
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