BLACKOUT

<p>For 16-year-old Skyler fear is a way of life.</p><p>Ever since the Wall split the UK in two her survival as an illegal Northern refugee in the South has been a relentless knife-edge balance between evading the brutal corrupt Board and clinging to her reputation as the South's best hacker.</p><p>But Skyler's sick of living in fear - and she's got nothing left to lose. So when fellow Northerner Mackenzie unwittingly hands her a chance to exact revenge on the regime that destroyed her home and family she seizes it.</p><p>She's about to start a fire.</p><p>Shortlisted for the 2016 Mslexia Children's Novel Competition and longlisted for the 2016 Bath Children's Novel Award <em>Blackout</em> is a story of resistance friendship and survival.</p>