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Koby Ashar is twelve, with no family and no money — and no idea why two organisations have spent years looking for him. Only one needed a puzzle.
75 words
Koby Ashar is twelve, and everyone he came from is gone. St. Mary's is where they put children like him: two lakes, two pitches, and a folder with his name spelled wrong twice. Then somebody arrives who spelled it right. There is a school on a world that moves. There is a sport played in a place with no down. And there are two organisations that have been looking for him, for reasons neither will explain.
Full blurb
Koby Ashar is twelve, and everyone he came from is gone. St. Mary's takes him in — two lakes, two football pitches, and a folder with his name hand-written wrong, crossed out, and written wrong again. Somebody, somewhere, has been trying to get it right. Then somebody arrives who already has. Cairn is a school on a world that had to be taught to move, under a gold sky that changes when the world does. There, gravity is not a force and nothing is ever thrown — you simply change which way down is, and something, somewhere, pays for it. Koby is good at this. He is better at it than anyone wants him to be. But two organisations have been looking for him for years, and only one of them needed a puzzle to do it. Working out which is which will cost him more than he knows how to count.
Book metadata
- Title
- The Measure
- Category
- Middle-grade fantasy
- Age range
- 9–13
- Manuscript
- Complete
- Length
- 83,361 words, 27 chapters
- Series
- Koby Ashar, book one of a planned seven
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