This was a nice surprise in the Summer Harper Collins catalog:
When the medium from her great-aunt's seance is found murdered, fifteen-year-old Sophie sets out to find the murderer with the help of her friend Mikael. But suddenly she no longer knows whom to trust - her handsome teacher might be a terrorist, her friends don't believe a word she says and the possibility of communicating with the dead no longer seems so crazy after all.
The Explosionist is an extraordinarily accomplished debut novel for teens that delivers a spectacular glimpse of the word as it might have been - had one moment in history been altered. Napoleon, Sigmund Freud and Alfred Nobel play small but surprising roles as this richly textured story unfolds against the backdrop of a vastly different Second World War.
Way to go Jenny!
