More about the book
For fans of The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See , this thrilling new novel set during WWI features a girl who must pretend to be a male soldier to save her younger brothers.Adi is an outsider, rejected by both her British father's and Indian mother's cultures, so she is no stranger to trouble. But when a mysterious agitator called Coal kidnaps Adi's twin brothers, Adi has to rely on herself to find them. With strength and cunning as fierce as any boy's, she decides to cut her hair and put on a military uniform to slip unnoticed through the chaos of World War I. When Adi finds a pocket watch that could be the clue to her lost brothers, she must figure out a way to decode it--before time runs out.
Book purchase
Silent, David Mellon
- Language
- Released
- 2017
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Hardcover)
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- Silent
- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Mellon
- Publisher
- Merit Press
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 1507201680
- ISBN13
- 9781507201688
- Series
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- For fans of The Book Thief and All the Light We Cannot See , this thrilling new novel set during WWI features a girl who must pretend to be a male soldier to save her younger brothers.Adi is an outsider, rejected by both her British father's and Indian mother's cultures, so she is no stranger to trouble. But when a mysterious agitator called Coal kidnaps Adi's twin brothers, Adi has to rely on herself to find them. With strength and cunning as fierce as any boy's, she decides to cut her hair and put on a military uniform to slip unnoticed through the chaos of World War I. When Adi finds a pocket watch that could be the clue to her lost brothers, she must figure out a way to decode it--before time runs out.