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Broken Sky Chronicles #1: Below

Below

by (author) Jason Chabot

Publisher
HarperCollins
Initial publish date
Jul 2014
Category
General
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443407816
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443407793
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
    List Price
    $17.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443407809
    Publish Date
    May 2015
    List Price
    $11.99

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 13 to 18
  • Grade: 8 to 12

Description

The ground cracked into hundreds of fissures, spreading out like a spider’s web. In an instant, the earth around the donkey crumbled, and Elia threw herself at the nearest clothesline. As the squealing animal fell away, swallowed by the mist below, the wind surged to send a sheet billowing within reach.

Swinging in the air from a fistful of fabric, Elia heard a snap above her head and looked up to see the last clothespins spring off.

For a second, she felt as though she was suspended in the fog.

 

Then she fell.

The first of three volumes in this thrilling series opens on the barren plains of Below, where a teenage boy named Hokk lives in isolation amid the remnants of our modern age.

On the floating islands in the skies of Above, Elia and her family are enslaved in endless drudgery. To Elia, the island’s edges are borders no one dares cross until the ritual burial that sends their dead Below. But a natural disaster is rumbling through Above, bringing both worlds—and Hokk and Elia—ever closer, until the day the earth crumbles below Elia’s feet and she falls.

When Hokk rescues the girl who miraculously survives plunging into the sea, he realizes she might be the key to finally ending his exile. Both teens are desperate to return to the homes they’ve lost, and their journey together will propel them across endless plains, shattered cities, mirrored palaces and a centuries-old battle for the very earth and sky around them.

About the author

JASON CHABOT grew up in the rural outskirts of Chilliwack, B.C., and graduated from the University of British Columbia. After more than a decade as a chartered accountant, Jason now writes full-time at his home in Vancouver, where he also enjoys ballroom dancing and playing classical piano. Visit Jason online at www.jasonchabot.com.

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