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The ash house

"When eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name l...

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Main Author: Walker, Angharad (Author)
Other Authors: Brickley, Corey (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Chicken House/Scholastic Inc., 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Memory > Juvenile fiction.
Abandoned children > Juvenile fiction.
Reflex sympathetic dystrophy > Patients > Juvenile fiction.
Children > Institutional care > Juvenile fiction.
Sick > Juvenile fiction.
Horror fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:"When eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster. The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They show him the dorms and tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But the new boy already has a name. Doesn't he? At least he did before he walked through those gates..."--
Item Description:"Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Chicken House"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781338636314
1338636316
9781912626977
1912626977
Author Notes:Angharad Walker grew up on various military bases in the UK, Germany and Cyprus, where stories were often being told about far-flung places, past conflicts, and friends and family. She studied English Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Warwick, which included a year at the sunny University of California Irvine. Her fiction has been published in Structo and A Million Ways, and her poetry has made it into Agenda broadsheets and Ink Sweat & Tears. She currently lives in London, and when she's not writing, she works as a communications consultant for charities and not-for-profits.

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