Fireboy - Willett, Edward

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Résumé :
Finalist, Best Young Adult Novel, 2026 Aurora Awards Nominee, 2027 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (Northern Lights) I knew things were getting weird when I saw my best friend's face in the campfire. I didn't realize how weird until the campfire followed me home . . . Thirteen-year-old Samantha Sam MacReady is nervous about the start of Grade 8, especially science class, which isn't too surprising: last year, her Grade 7 science class mysteriously disappeared on the way to a field trip she missed out on. But when her best friend, Lorenzo-whom no one has seen since he got on the bus with the rest of that class-suddenly appears in a campfire, she moves from nervous to freaked out. She teams up with Meg LeBlanc, the sole student survivor of what all adults refer to as The Tragedy, to uncover just what went on that day and why Lorenzo is now showing up in her back yard made entirely of flames. What the two girls find out is far freakier and scarier than they ever imagined. Sam and Meg must use all their grit and intelligence to save the day and free their friends from magical enslavement . . . or fall victim to the very same fate....

Biographie:
Edward Willett is the award-winning author (under his own name and as E.C. Blake and Lee Arthur Chane) of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction for readers of all ages, including twelve novels for DAW Books. He has been shortlisted multiple times for Saskatchewan Book Awards, and won for his young adult fantasy Spirit Singer (Shadowpaw Press). He won Canada's top science fiction and fantasy award, the Aurora, for his second novel for DAW, Marseguro, and has been shortlisted several times since, including for his most recent young adult science fiction novel, Star Song (Shadowpaw Press). Ed has also won an Aurora Award for his podcast, The Worldshapers. In addition to being a writer and editor, Ed is a professional actor and singer. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife, Margaret Anne Hodges, a professional engineer....

Sommaire:
I knew things were getting weird when I saw my best friend's face in the campfire. I didn't realize how weird until the campfire followed me home . . . Thirteen-year-old Samantha Sam MacReady is nervous about the start of Grade 8, especially science class, which isn't too surprising: last year, her Grade 7 science class mysteriously disappeared on the way to a field trip she missed out on. But when her best friend, Lorenzo-whom no one has seen since he got on the bus with the rest of that class-suddenly appears in a campfire, she moves from nervous to freaked out. She teams up with Meg LeBlanc, the sole student survivor of what all adults refer to as The Tragedy, to uncover just what went on that day and why Lorenzo is now showing up in her back yard made entirely of flames. What the two girls find out is far freakier and scarier than they ever imagined. Sam and Meg must use all their grit and intelligence to save the day and free their friends from magical enslavement . . . or fall victim to the very same fate....