Paperback, 267 pages
English language
Published April 20, 2005 by Miramax.
Supernaturalist, The
by Eoin Colfer
4 stars
(1 review)
Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite ... until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him. They are the Supernaturalists, dedicated to ridding the world of these life-sucking blue parasites. When they realise that Cosmo has the ability to see these blue creatures too, they enlist him as one of them. Their mission leads Cosmo into a world of high-level corruption, James Bond type technology, thrilling adventure and finally back to a place that Cosmo ever thought he'd have to return...the dreaded Clarissa Frayne.
Subjects
- Orphans
- Juvenile Fiction
- Juvenile Science Fiction / Fantasy
- Children's 12-Up - Fiction - Science Fiction
- Science fiction
- Children: Grades 4-6
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
- Action & Adventure - General
- Family - Orphans & Foster Homes
- Juvenile Fiction / General
- Fiction
- Friendship