Changers Book Two: Oryon

By Allison Glock-Cooper, T. Cooper, Neesh Santiago

Book Overview

"This is an excellent sequel . . . . This installment raises the stakes, making the story not just about physical and emotional transformation, but about survival." --School Library Journal

"Oryon's winning and witty narrative voice is consistently engaging . . . Oryon is African-American, and much of what he observes is about race . . . raises thought-provoking questions." --Kirkus Reviews

Part of Akashic's Black Sheep YA imprint.

Changers Book Two: Oryon in the four-part Changers Series for young adults finds our hero Ethan/Drew on the eve of her second metamorphosis--into Oryon, a skinny African American skater boy with more swagger than he knows what to do with. Enter a mess of trouble from the Changers Council, the closed-minded Abiders, the Radical Changers (RaChas), and his best friend Audrey--at least she was his best friend when Oryon was Drew--and now, it's complicated.

But that's life (and life, and life, and life) for Changers, an ancient race of humans who must live out each year of high school as a completely different person. Before next summer, Oryon will learn what it means to be truly loved, scared spitless, and at the center of a burgeoning national culture war. Most of all, he will learn again how much the eyes of the world try to shape you into what they see--and how only when you resist do you clearly begin to see yourself.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617753076
• ISBN13: 9781617753077
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Black Sheep
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12