Starters
By (Author) Lissa Price
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Corgi Childrens
2nd September 2013
4th July 2013
United Kingdom
Young Adult
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
352
Width 130mm, Height 199mm, Spine 22mm
247g
Your body. Rented out. Used to murder. First, Callie lost her parents. Then she lost her home. And, finally, she lost her body. But she will stop at nothing to get it back . . . Callie and her little brother are on the run, living as squatters, fighting off unclaimed renegades who would kill for a cookie. But with the Body Bank comes a promise of much-needed cash, and with it, hope. And then despair . . . The Bank allows teenagers to rent out their bodies to those who want to be young again. But Callie's renter intends to do more than party in her body. She intends to murder . . .
If youre a Hunger Games fan, then move Starters straight to the top of your to-read pile youll love it. * Metro *
The concept is compulsively gruesome . . . Price develops her plot and characters with tight, punchy writing and a sure, confident touch. There must be a movie in this . . . * The Daily Mail *
A bona fide page-turner. * MTV.com *
Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to Suzanne Collinss The Hunger Games will find it here. Dystopian sci-fi at its best. * Los Angeles Times *
This bleak dystopian novel makes a compelling read . . . Grabs the reader's attention from the first page * Booktrust *
Lissa Price is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author whose debut Starters is published in over thirty countries. You can follow her on Twitter (@Lissa_Price). Lissa lives with her husband in Southern California.