Pucker

Thomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as "Pucker," has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family's strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire-these things have kept Thomas isolated and alone.Now, at seventeen, a quest to save his dying mother takes Thomas back to his birthplace, an alternate world called Isaura from which he and his mother were exiled years earlier. In Isaura, Thomas's scars will be magically healed. He will fall in love for the first time. And he will face a devastating, impossible choice.In shimmering prose, Melanie Gideon's new novel takes readers from the lonely places in a boy's soul to a miraculous world of infinite possibility and frightening temptation.

First sentence: LET ME SAY THIS RIGHT up front: this is not a story about kissing, or wrinkles, or things that are sour.

Year

2006

Language

English

Publisher

Razorbill

Editions

4

Pages

288

ISBN

9781595140555

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