Author Description

Product Description From the award-winning author of Varjak Paw, comes the incredible story of the one boy who can save the galaxy. Lucky thinks he's an ordinary Human boy. But one night, he dreams that the stars are singing and wakes to find an uncontrollable power rising inside him. Now he's on the run, racing through space, searching for answers. In a galaxy at war, where Humans and Aliens are deadly enemies, the only people who can help him are an Alien starship crew and an Alien warrior girl, with neon needles in her hair. But Lucky is not the only one in danger. His destiny and the fate of the universe are connected in the most explosive way. About the Author SF Said's first book, Varjak Paw, won the Nestle Smarties Prize for Children's Literature. The sequel, The Outlaw Varjak Paw, won the BBC Blue Peter Book of the Year. Phoenix is Said's third book. He has written widely about literature, films and the arts for The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, and works regularly with CLPE, promoting reading and literacy in schools.James Carcaterra has been a professional actor since 1999. His gangly demeanor is employed in a variety of roles from quirky and geeky to naïve and the unconventional, if a little startled, hero.