Race the Night | Hardcover

Race the Night

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Date of Release: 8 November 2016

“Without you, there’d be no hope for the world. Because you are the whole world.”

That’s what Teacher tells twelve-year-old Eider, and for as long as she can remember, she’s believed it. The world ended long ago, and the desert ranch—surrounded by fences, dust, and endless rules—is all that remains. Beyond it lies nothing… or so she’s been taught.

But Eider’s mind keeps drifting Beyond. Beyond the cracked earth and daily lessons. Beyond the stories she secretly treasures from a hidden fairytale book. Beyond the mysterious scraps of paper she collects from the world Before. And beyond the aching absence of a little sister who may—or may not—have ever existed.

When Teacher introduces a strange new set of lessons meant to test the children’s “specialness,” everything begins to unravel. Seeing in the dark. Reading minds. Pushing limits they never knew they had. As the challenges grow more dangerous, so do the questions—and questioning Teacher might be the most dangerous thing of all.

Race the Night is a haunting, emotional middle-grade dystopian novel about truth, control, family, and the courage it takes to imagine a different future. With spare, lyrical prose and rising tension, Kirsten Hubbard delivers a story that blends hope and heartbreak, reminding readers that even when the world ends, a new beginning can still be found.

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