The Shimmers in the Night by Lydia Millet

The Shimmers in the Night by Lydia Millet

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Summary

The world is becoming very strange for thirteen-year-old Cara who discovers that some wonderful creatures don't only exist in dreams.

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The Shimmers in the Night by Lydia Millet

Cara's mother is still missing. When her brother Jax texts her from "smart kid's boot camp" in Boston, Cara and her two best friends go to the rescue. But the camp is a front for Cara's mother's organization who are fighting against a force who wants to make the planet over in its own image, which will leave no space for anything else, animal, insect, or human. A Junior Library Guild Selection. Lydia Millet is the author of Love in Infant Monkeys and Ghost Lights. She works at an endangered-species protection group. The Shimmers in the Night is the second book in the Dissenters series.
Lydia Millet: Lydia Millet is the author of many novels for adult readers, including My Happy Life, which won the PEN-USA Award for Fiction in 2003, and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, about the scientists who designed the first atomic bomb, which was shortlisted for the UK's Arthur C. Clarke Prize. She has taught at Columbia University and the University of Arizona and now works as a writer and editor at an endangered-species protection group called the Center for Biological Diversity.
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ISBN 13 9781931520782
ISBN 10 193152078X
Title The Shimmers in the Night
Author Lydia Millet
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Small Beer Press
Year published 2012-11-08
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.