Rift
Published on 1. November 2011
304 pages
978-1-4052-4936-2 (ISBN)
Description
An edge-of-your-seat mystery-thriller from Beverley Birch.
In a vast African landscape four teenagers and a journalist vanish without a trace from a camp below a steep rock ridge, 'Chomlaya'. As Ella, the sister of one of the missing girls, helps Inspector Murothi piece together what happened, she realises there are terrifying possibilities for her sister and the four others. There has been sinister behaviour and bullying in the camp where the missing were staying. Has there been foul play? Then one of the missing turns up - but with no memory of what has happened ... As the search helicopters continue their constant hum over the rock ridge, Ella and the Inspector begin to wonder whether they are already too late ...
Fans of Julia Golding's Girl on the Run series will love Rift.
'Rift is that delightful thing, a book which holds you from the first page' - Marcus Sedgwick, Guardian
In a vast African landscape four teenagers and a journalist vanish without a trace from a camp below a steep rock ridge, 'Chomlaya'. As Ella, the sister of one of the missing girls, helps Inspector Murothi piece together what happened, she realises there are terrifying possibilities for her sister and the four others. There has been sinister behaviour and bullying in the camp where the missing were staying. Has there been foul play? Then one of the missing turns up - but with no memory of what has happened ... As the search helicopters continue their constant hum over the rock ridge, Ella and the Inspector begin to wonder whether they are already too late ...
Fans of Julia Golding's Girl on the Run series will love Rift.
'Rift is that delightful thing, a book which holds you from the first page' - Marcus Sedgwick, Guardian
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 11 years
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4052-4936-2 (9781405249362)
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Beverley Birch is the author of more than forty books, from picture books and novels to science biographies and retellings of Shakespeare. All her books have received critical acclaim. She has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and is in the top ten per cent of all authors borrowed in UK libraries. Beverley grew up in Kenya, and came to England for the first time to study for A' levels.
