I Am Thunder
Age 12 +
25 January 2008Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Synopsis
I Am Thunder is the Branford Boase Award-winning debut YA novel which questions how far you'll go to stand up for what you believe.
Fifteen-year-old Muzna Saleem is used to being invisible. So no one is more surprised than her when Arif Malik, the hottest boy in school, takes a sudden interest.
But Arif is hiding a terrible secret and, as...
Details
25 January 2008320 pages
9781509874057Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Reviews
An uplifting, empowering novel with hope at its heartObserver Children's Book of the Week
This one is special . . . Muhammad Khan has created a powerful, sophisticated and intensely likeable female narrator in this thrilling novel, which punches well above the weight of most debutsAlex O'Connell, The Times Children's Book of the Week
With its superb heroine, pitch-perfect dialogue, and sensitive examination of extremism preying on naivety, this assured, hopeful debut feels unprecedented and essentialImogen Russell Williams, Guardian
Funny and clever - a perspective long overdue in British fictionAlex Wheatle, Guardian prize-winning author of Crongton Knights
