suitable for confident readers aged 10+
Also available in Japanese, Chinese and Italian.
These books grew from two of my earlier short stories DEATH SINGER and A GIFT FROM THE MERLEE, which were originally published in fantasy magazines. I combined the two ideas - a song that could kill people, and fish-tailed merlee whose voices could control the wind and the waves - to invent the Echorium and its five Songs of Power. The merlee are based on legends of sirens, who used to sing ships on to the rocks to wreck them, and they look like mermaids. The Singers who live in the Echorium and dye their hair blue are my own invention.
This award-winning trilogy follows three generations of young Singers as they join forces with brave half creatures to battle the evil Khizpriest and the power of dark crystal. The books are best read in order, but since there is a gap of several years between each book and new young characters in each story you can also enjoy them as stand-alone novels.
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Scholastic US edition