The Scorpio Races Award-winning by Maggie Stiefvater (author)

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A stunning new novel from the bestselling author of SHIVER, LINGER AND FOREVER.

Stay alive, stay astride, stay out of the water…

Every November, the Scorpio Races are run beneath the chalk cliffs of Skarmouth. Thousands gather to watch the horses and the sea that washes the blood from the sand. The mounts are capaill uisce: savage water horses. There are no horses more beautiful, more fearless, more deadly. To race them can be suicide but the danger is irresistible.

Sean Kendrick knows the dangers of the capaill uisce. With one foot in the ocean and one on land, he is the only man on the island capable of taming the beasts. He races to prove something both to himself and to the horses. Puck Connolly enters the races to save her family. But the horse she rides is an ordinary little mare, just as Puck is an ordinary girl. When Sean sees Puck on the beach he doesn’t think she belongs. He doesn’t realize his fate will become entwined in hers.

They both enter the Races hoping to change their lives. But first they’ll have to survive.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407129853

Date published

October 19th, 2011

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 5.5; Upper years; 17.0 points

Other details

496 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater’s life decisions have revolved around her inability to be gainfully employed. Talking to yourself, staring into space, and coming to work in your pyjamas are frowned upon when you’re a waitress, calligraphy instructor, or technical editor (all of which she’s tried), but are highly prized traits in novelists and artists (she’s made her living as one or the other since she was twenty-two). Maggie now lives a surprisingly eccentric life in the middle of nowhere, Virginia, with her charmingly straight-laced husband, two kids, and multiple neurotic dogs.

Reviews

Aysha, Book Club Review Team
on 18 October 2011

Complicated but intriguing

A complicated, yet intriguing book by Maggie Stiefvater, the author of Shiver. If you enjoyed the captivating storyline of Shiver, you'll love the originality of The Scorpio Races.