Age Group: 9 - 12 Years

Description:

It's Maisie Day's tenth birthday and she can't wait to celebrate — though instead of usual presents, she's hoping for the parts she needs to build her own nuclear reactor. Brilliant, curious, and already studying university-level physics online, Maisie is no ordinary ten-year-old. But when she wakes up that morning, something has gone very wrong. The house is silent. Her family is nowhere to be found. And when she opens the front door, all she sees is a vast, all-consuming blackness stretching out where the garden should be. As the chapters alternate between this terrifying shifting reality and a sunlit birthday with her parents and prickly older sister Lily, Maisie must draw on everything she knows about the universe, and on the love of her family, to work out what is happening to her. A short, gripping, deeply moving science fiction mystery from the award-winning author of The Jamie Drake Equation.