CB: Bloom - Ages 10+

It was just rain.

But after the downpour, odd black plants begin to shoot up.

Suddenly—

They. Are. Everywhere.

They take over fields and twine around houses. They bloom and throw off toxic pollen—and feed.

Strangely, Anaya, Petra and Seth, three Salt Spring Island teens, seem immune. What’s their connection? What’s their secret? A week ago, they wouldn’t have thought they had one.

But they’d better figure it out fast—the invasion has already begun.

Awards: 

• Kobo Top Picks of the Year
• Red Maple Award Winner
• Amazon.com Best Books of the Year
• CBC Best Book of the Year

KENNETH OPPEL wrote his first novel at age fourteen. His books include Bloom, the first book in the Bloom trilogy; the Silverwing trilogy, which has sold over a million copies around the world; and Airborn, winner of the Governor General’s Award and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is also the author of Half Brother, This Dark Endeavour, The Boundless, The Nest, Every Hidden Thing, and Inkling, which the New York Times Book Review called "astonishing." Ken lives with his family in Toronto.
Kennethoppel.ca