In Other Lands

<p><em><strong>Georgia Peach Award Nominee • </strong><strong>Florida Teens Read Award Nominee • </strong><strong>ABC Best Books for Young Readers • </strong><strong>Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year • </strong><strong>A Junior Library Guild Selection • </strong><strong>Hugo & Locus award finalist</strong></em></p><p><strong><em>In Other Lands</em> is an exhilarating novel from bestselling author Sarah Rees Brennan about surviving four years in the most unusual of schools -</strong><strong> friendship falling in love diplomacy and finding your own place in the world — even if it means giving up your phone.</strong></p><p><strong>Excerpt:</strong></p><p>The Borderlands aren’t like anywhere else. Don’t try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border — unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves harpies and — best of all as far as Elliot is concerned — mermaids.</p><p><em>What’s your name?</em></p><p><em>Serene.</em></p><p><em>Serena? Elliot asked.</em></p><p><em>Serene said Serene. My full name is Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle.</em></p><p><em>Elliot’s mouth fell open. That is badass.</em></p><p>Elliot? Who’s Elliot? Elliot is thirteen years old. He’s smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. Sometimes more than a tiny bit. When his class goes on a field trip and he can see a wall that no one else can see he is given the chance to go to school in the Borderlands.</p><p>It turns out that on the other side of the wall classes involve a lot more weaponry and fitness training and fewer mermaids than he expected. On the other hand there’s Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle an elven warrior who is more beautiful than anyone Elliot has ever seen and then there’s her human friend Luke: sunny blond and annoyingly likeable. There are lots of interesting books. There’s even the chance Elliot might be able to change the world.</p>