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In the Forests of the Night

Alison Hughes author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cormorant Books,Canada

Publishing:12th Apr '25

£7.99

This title is due to be published on 12th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

In the Forests of the Night cover

In a world without trees, Ellis’s new friend Pip just might be Mother Nature’s secret weapon.

Targeted because of their connection to the Ghost Tree, kidnapped by robotic pterodactyl-like creatures, then forced to work at a mining camp, twelve-year-old orphan Ellis and her friends must band together to escape — but can they survive long enough to find the rumored forests of the night?

A year after her best friend Lora mysteriously disappears from Clearwood Home, twelve-year-old Ellis is put in charge of the orphanage’s new arrival: Pip.

Small, silent, and strange, Pip is inexplicably drawn to the eerie Ghost Tree, a fossilized relic of the Blight that killed every forest in the world. But Pip’s connection to nature makes her, Ellis, and their friend Jasper targets of Mother Dear, a sinister, scientific mastermind determined to destroy the natural world and replace it with her robot-hybrid one.

Kidnapped by their teacher, kidnapped again by Mother Dear’s robotic pterodactyl-like creatures, and then held captive at her work camp, Ellis, Pip, and Jasper must work together to make their daring escape, learn the truth of Lora’s fate, and uncover the key to nature’s regeneration.

ISBN: 9781770867857

Dimensions: 203mm x 137mm x 25mm

Weight: 200g

200 pages