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The call

Peadar Ó Guilin

2016307 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016David Fickling Books · 307 pages · ENGISBN 9781338045611

For the last twenty-five years every teenager in Ireland has been subject to "the call" which takes them away to the land of the Sídhe, where they are hunted for twenty four hours (though only three minutes pass in this world)--handicapped by her twisted legs, Nessa Doherty knows that very few return alive, but she is determined to be one of them.

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Written forMiddle grade

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ThemesSurvival
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