Island of Silence

by Lisa McMann

  He scratched his head through the mess of tangled hair and stared at the note. “This is it,” he whispered reverently. “This is the help I’ve been begging for.” He looked at the girl and said, “You know what? We just might live through this after all.”

  He looked out to the west where Warbler was. And even though he couldn’t see it from here in the darkest hours, and even though there was no magic to be found in all of Artimé, still Alex concentrated with all his might and whispered to his friends a world away, “Hold on.”

  Author photograph © 2011 by Vania Stoyanova, VLCPhoto

  Lisa McMann is the author of the New York Times bestselling Wake trilogy, Cryer’s Cross, Dead to You, and the middle-grade dystopian fantasy series The Unwanteds. She lives with her family in the Phoenix area. Read more about Lisa and find her blog through her website at LisaMcMann.com, or better yet, find her on Facebook (facebook.com/ mcmannfan) or follow her on Twitter (twitter.com/lisa_mcmann).

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  McMann, Lisa. Island of silence / by Lisa McMann. ’ 1st Aladdin hardcover ed. p. cm. ’ (Unwanteds ; bk. 2)

  Summary: As the Wanteds, Unwanteds, and Necessaries struggle to adjust to changes

  in their society, Mr. Today begins training fourteen-year-old Alex to replace him as Artime’s leader one day while Alex’s disgraced twin, Aaron, connives to take over Quill.

  [1. Social problems’Fiction. 2. Self-confidence’Fiction. 3. Magic’Fiction. 4. Brothers’Fiction. 5. Twins’Fiction. 6. Creative ability’Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.M478757Isl 2012 [Fic]’dc23 2011029418

  ISBN 978-1-4424-0771-8 (hardcover edition) ISBN 978-1-4424-0773-2 (eBook)