by Chris Wooding · Hippo/Scholastic · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780439978873
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«Kerosene» is the young adult novel by Chris Wooding, published by Hippo/Scholastic in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Cal, an extremely shy teenager, can barely talk to his only friend, let alone to a girl. When two classmates mock him for sheer fun, his stability cracks: only fire brings him calm. The attraction to flames becomes a destructive obsession, and someone tries to lend him a hand.
Kerosene was originally published in 1999; the cover of this edition also mentions The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, another novel by Chris Wooding.
Aimed at teenage and young adult readers, with an interest in contemporary realistic fiction and stories of tormented characters.
Chris Wooding is a British writer born in Leicester, and now living in London. His first book, Crashing, which he wrote at the age of nineteen, was published in 1998 when he was twenty-one. Since then he has written many more, including The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, which was silver runner-up for the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize, and Poison, which won the Lancashire Children's Book of the Year. He is also the author of three different, completed series; Broken Sky, an anime-influenced fantasy serial for children, Braided Path, a fantasy trilogy for adults, and Malice, a young adult fantasy that mixes graphic novel with the traditional novel; as well as another, four-part series, Tales of the Ketty Jay, a steampunk sci-fi fantasy for adults.
