Author Meagan Spooner’s Debut YA Novel Skylark Introduces Readers to a Dark World Powered by Children

MINNEAPOLIS--()--Skylark, a debut YA novel written by Meagan Spooner and published by Carolrhoda Lab™, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, introduces readers to life in the City. Children in the City grow up expecting to be harvested, and Lark Ainsley was no different. For fifteen years, Lark Ainsley waited for the day when her Resource would be harvested and she would finally be an adult. After the harvest she expected a small role in the regular, orderly operation of the City within the Wall. She expected to do her part to maintain the refuge for the last survivors of the Wars. She expected to be a tiny cog in the larger clockwork of the city.

Lark did not expect to become the City's power supply.

In Skylark, author Meagan Spooner sends readers with Lark on a daring and desperate escape from the only world she's ever known. Beyond the Wall, Lark discovers that nothing is as she expects, and nearly everything she’s ever been told is a lie...

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About the Author
Meagan Spooner graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a degree in playwriting and spent several years living in Australia. She's traveled with her family all over the world and there's a bit of every journey in the stories she writes. Meagan currently lives and writes in Northern Virginia, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and there's no telling how long she'll stay there. Visit her online at www.meaganspooner.com.

About the Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab™ is dedicated to distinctive, provocative, boundary-pushing fiction for teens. Carolrhoda Lab™ probes and examines the young-adult condition one novel at a time, affording YA authors and readers an opportunity to explore and experiment with thoughts, ideas, and paradigms in the human condition. Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, creates high-quality fiction and nonfiction titles for children and young adults.

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 2012
$17.95 Hardcover, Jacketed
$12.95 eBook
Ages 12-18
HC: 978-0-7613-8865-4
EB: 978-1-4677-0010-8
344 Pages ● 5 ½ x 8 ½

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Contacts

Lerner Publishing Group
Lindsay Matvick, 800-328-4929, x385
Senior Publicist
lmatvick@lernerbooks.com

Release Summary

Author Meagan Spooner’s Debut YA Novel Skylark Introduces Readers to a Dark World Powered by Children

Contacts

Lerner Publishing Group
Lindsay Matvick, 800-328-4929, x385
Senior Publicist
lmatvick@lernerbooks.com