Sophie, in Shadow
Eileen Kernaghan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
4.00
· 1 ratings · 248 pages · Published: 10 Mar 2014
*Shortlisted for the 2015 Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize (BC Book Prizes)
It's 1914. Sixteen-year-old Sophie Pritchard, orphaned two years earlier by a famous sea disaster, is about to begin a new life in the unfamiliar world of British India. For Sophie, still devastated by her parent's death, India proves a dangerously unsettling environment. Are her terrifying experiences in Kali's temple and the Park Street cemetery hallucinations, or has she somehow been drawn back through the centuries as a witness to dark places in Calcutta's past?
Kidnapping, enemy spies, and terrorist plots all play their part against the background of a world at war and growing unrest in the Indian subcontinent. Soon Sophie's powers of precognition will be called upon to help thwart a conspiracy that could incite a bloodbath in Calcutta and deliver India into enemy hands.
Tagged as:
- fantasy 4
- historical 3
- historical fiction 3
- world war I 3
- war/big battles 3
- protagonists of colour 3
- magic 2
- industrial era 2
- colonization 2
- paranormal 2
- female mc 1
- 20th century 1
- military, war & conflict 1
- action / adventure 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- young adult 2
- book 1