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BURNING MIDNIGHT

Will McIntosh

A thriller about four teenagers locked in a deadly race against a billionaire to find the "Midnight Blue", a mysterious sphere that can bring its owner millions of dollars, or give them "unpredictable powers".

One day, small spheres of brilliant color show up all over Earth. If you put two of the same color together, they grant you a modest power, like greater speed or more intelligence. The more amazing the power a sphere grants, the harder it is to find that color. Soon there's an entire market for the spheres, and lots of money at stake.

Sixteen-year-old Sully, though, can't afford to buy any rare spheres. He's too poor, and has to sell cheap and plentiful spheres on the open market to try to help his mom make rent. He's famous too, for finding a Cherry Red, a level 10 rarity sphere, and getting cheated out of it by Alex Holliday, millionaire owner, seller and user of the most spheres in the world. So now he keeps his head down, working hard to make due on the lesser spheres. Until one day he meets Hunter, a professional sphere finder, who has a plan to go for the rare ones, the ones that are worth enough to change their lives, and maybe rare enough to change the entire world.
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Published 2016-02-01 by Delacorte

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UK: Macmillan; China: Tsinghua University; Turkey: Pegasus;

McIntosh has set up a crazy plot, and pulls it off with this excellent novel. It's fast, filled with vibrant characters, and drives into places that I'd never have expected ... This is prime YA territory, and the end result is a fantastic novel about friendship against the odds. --- i09 Read more...