The Pack
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
A pack of best friends navigate first crushes, new friendships and more at their school for girls with animal powers!
Don’t be fooled. . . . Charm House isn’t like any other charm school. Charm stands for Center for Human-Animal Reform and Manners. Every girl who boards there has an animal light inside her that is wild and needs to be tamed.
New girl Sadie just wants to stay out of trouble and blend in. When she learns she has the fiercest animal light of all, she is invited to join the group of it girls known as the Pack, led by Lindsey, the school’s queen of the jungle. Soon Sadie is consumed by social drama and her secret feelings for an off-limits private-school boy.
Charm House is supposed to protect them, but danger looms when someone starts to threaten the girls. Is the school in jeopardy—or is someone trying to tear the Pack apart?
"Girls with secret kick-butt animal powers? Yes please. This story is fast paced, hilarious, and wildly fun.”—Melissa de la Cruz, New York Times bestselling author of The Descendants
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Harrison (the Clique series) dives into girls' boarding school dynamics in this playfully paranormal series starter. After animalistic impulses and anger issues get her into trouble at middle school, straw-blond Sadie Samson is transferred to Charm House, a girls' boarding school in Timor Lake, Wash. There, she discovers that Charm, the "Center for Human Animal Reform and Manners," secretly shelters and trains girls like her, who possess animal spirits known as lights. Learning that she has a rare lion light, which distinguishes her as a potential leader among species including hyenas, giraffes, and monkeys, Sadie falls in with the Pack, a clique of popular girls led by tiger light Lindsey. When a series of mysterious attacks implicate her snake light roommate, Sadie must solve the mystery at the heart of Charm House to prove her leadership mettle and save her friends. Scant world-building raises more questions than the brief, fast-paced story has room to detail, and character descriptions are often limited to backward-looking phrases ("exotically gorgeous," "narrow-waisted"); Sadie, nevertheless, makes for a sympathetic, engaging protagonist throughout. Ages 10–up.
