The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party

M.T. Anderson, Peter Francis James (Read by)

$45.00

Publication Date: January 9th, 2007

Publisher:

Listening Library (Audio)

ISBN:

9780739338629

Pages:

This historical novel transports the reader to the early days of America's revolution. The future is open, everything is up in the air, and the hardest choice is one of loyalty: Should Octavian fight for the rebels who want to keep him a slave, or should he follow hope and side with the royalists who promise him personal freedom? Anderson's sequel to his award-winning The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing is a provocative story that continues to enlarge the young adult novel in thoughtful, glorious ways.

Mark David Bradshaw, Watermark Books, Wichita, KS

Winter 2009 Kids' List

Description

He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother–a princess in exile from a faraway land–are the only people in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians’ fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments–and his own chilling role in them.

About the Author

M. T. Anderson is on the faculty at Vermont College's MFA Program in Writing for Children. He is the author of the young adult novels "Thirsty" and "Burger Wuss." He says of "Feed," "To write this novel, I read a huge number of magazines like "Seventeen," "Maxim," and "Stuff." I listened to cell phone conversations in malls. Where else could you get lines like 'Dude, I think the truffle is totally undervalued'?" M. T. Anderson lives in Boston, Massachusetts.