Alyzon Whitestarr
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I also want to thank the ever-present and gently vigilant Janet Raunjak at Penguin, and Miles Lowry. Last but far from least is Adam Totic from the Internet café in Veletržní Palác Gallery in Prague, without whose help and tolerance I would never have managed to get this book edited between countries.
About the Author
Isobelle Carmody began the first of her highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles while she was still in high school, and worked on it while completing a Bachelor of Arts and then a journalism cadetship. The series and her short stories have established her at the forefront of fantasy writing in Australia.
She has written many award-winning short stories and books for young people. The Gathering was a joint winner of the 1993 Children’s Book Council Book of the Year Award and the 1994 Children’s Peace Literature Award. Billy Thunder and the Night Gate (published as Night Gate in the United States) was short-listed for the Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children’s Literature in the 2001 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards. Isobelle’s most recent works include the Little Fur series for younger readers, which she also illustrated.
Isobelle and her family divide their time between their homes in Australia and the Czech Republic.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2005 by Isobelle Carmody
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carmody, Isobelle.
Alyzon Whitestarr / Isobelle Carmody. — 1st American ed.
p. cm.
Summary: When Alyzon, the ordinary member of an extraordinary family, develops enhanced senses, she becomes aware of an evil virus that preys on people’s spirits, and realizes that the sickness and its proponents are aware of her and are a menace to her family.
eISBN: 978-0-375-85390-6
[1. Psychic ability—Fiction. 2. Family life—Australia—Fiction. 3. Supernatural—Fiction. 4. Australia—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C2176Aly 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008033796
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Table of Contents
Prelude
Acknowledgments
About the Author