Urchin

They say Dor's family is cursed. The house her great-great grandfather built on the south side of St. John's has never been at peace; the old people think it lies on a fairy path. Ever since electricity came to the island, things have worsened, and experiments in the brand-new technology of radio put her family in real peril. In December 1901, Marconi arrives in Newfoundland with a secret mission: to receive the first wireless trans-Atlantic radio signal. Disguised as a boy, Dor joins his team. Then the Little Strangers kidnap her mother. Must Dor sabotage Marconi's experiments to save her?

Publisher: Running the Goat
Published: 10/26/2021
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781927917435
Age: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2021
School Library Journal 11/01/2021 pg. 76

About the Author
Story, Kate: -

Kate Story is a writer, dancer and actor. She is the author of five novels, including the YA Antilia series and Blasted, which received an honorable mention for the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Her short stories have been included in numerous collections and journals; "runaway" was a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2015, she received the Ontario Arts Foundation's K.M. Hunter Award for her work in theater. Born and raised in Newfoundland, she now lives in Peterborough, Ontario.