Uncontrollable | A middle-grade fantasy fiction written in verse

Varsha Seshan is a writer of lists emails detailed notes to self and children's books. Her childhood dream was to drive a road-roller which she did once gaining great respect for those who park these machines without knocking walls down. She has written 19 books for children and has twice been shortlisted for the Scholastic Asian Book Award which honours the best of Asian writing in English. Find out more at www.varshaseshan.com <p>Children forced out of their homes<br>Humans discarded as empty shells<br>A Machine that sucks out Power.<br>Secrets<br>More secrets<br>And still more secrets-<br>I must fight a government of evil<br>destroy the Machine<br>and . . . save my mother.<br><br>Me twelve-year-old Rohini.<br>Ha. Really?</p>