Stone Rider

The Hunger Games meets The Road in a stunning debut novel from a powerful new voice in YA fiction. *Shortlisted for the Branford Boase award 2016* 
 
Adam Stone wants freedom and peace. 
 He wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in. Most of all, he wants the beautiful Sadie Blood. 
 
 Alongside Sadie and the dangerous outsider, Kane, Adam will ride the Blackwater Trail in a brutal race that will test them all, body and soul. Only the strongest will survive. 
 
The prize? A one-way ticket to Sky-Base and unimaginable luxury. 
 
And for a chance at this new life, Adam will risk everything . . . 
 
'Pacy and gripping, with echoes of Mad Max and a dash of Brave New World.' Sally Green, author of Half Bad

David Hofmeyr was born in South Africa and lives in London and Paris. In 2013 he graduated from Bath Spa University with an MA in Writing for Young People.The Between is his second novel. His first, Stone Rider, was published in 2015 and shortlisted for the Branford Boase award for first-time novelists. He divides his time between writing and working as a strategist for Ogilvy &amp; Mather.

*Shortlisted for the Branford Boase award 2016* 
 
Adam Stone wants freedom and peace. 
 
 He wants a chance to escape Blackwater, the dust-bowl desert town he grew up in. Most of all, he wants the beautiful Sadie Blood. 
 
 Alongside Sadie and the dangerous outsider, Kane, Adam will ride the Blackwater Trail in a brutal race that will test them all, body and soul. Only the strongest will survive. 
 
The prize? A one-way ticket to Sky-Base and unimaginable luxury. 
 
And for a chance at this new life, Adam will risk everything . . .

David Hofmeyr

A fast-paced sci-fi story with a diverse cast . . . that never lets up its breakneck pace

The Bulletin of the Center For Children’s Books

'Forget everything you think you know . . .' 
 
Ana Moon's best friend Bea has vanished. Her house has changed. Her parents have become strangers. She has fallen into a world that is not her own. 
 
Guided by the mysterious Malik and his Pathfinders, Ana must travel across seven versions of Earth to get Bea back. 
 
Lying in wait are the sinister Order, monstrous Reapers and a rogue Pathfinder bent on finding the elusive seventh world, and who will destroy anyone who stands against them. 
 
To save Bea, Ana must master her own Pathfinder powers, or it won't only be her friend who is lost forever - it will be Ana herself . . .

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