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DescriptionWinner of the British Book Award for Children's Fiction Book of the Year 2023...! Adam has found something incredible in a rubbish dump in London. A mysterious, mythical, magical animal. A TYGER. And the tyger is in danger. Adam and his friend Zadie are determined to help, but it isn't just the tyger's life at stake. Their whole world is on the verge of destruction. Can they learn to use their powers before it's too late? ReviewsShades of William Blake's Tyger poem, and hints of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials for a younger audience. In an alternate London, when Adam flees from thieves, he finds a strange creature - the tyger - wounded and hiding in the ruins. When he helps the tyger, it sends him on a strange and eye-opening adventure - EC Author descriptionS F Said is an award-winning author. He was born in Lebanon in 1967, but has lived in London since he was 2 years old. He wrote his first novel, Varjak Paw (2003), while working as a speechwriter for the Crown Prince of Jordan, and then as an arts journalist and film programmer. |