Readers interested in a similar plot will be better served by Rio Youers’s Halcyon. Barkan, however, fails to make the characters multidimensional or emotionally plausible. The Night Burns Bright Ross Barkan (Author) FORMAT Paperback 14.95 Compact Disc 24.99 MP3 CD 14.99 Available add to cart add to wishlist Description In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boy's spark of courage to question the harmonious wooded commune he calls home may burn down more than just his own illusions. Eventually, Leroux’s real, and unsurprisingly sinister, master plan for limiting human damage to Earth is revealed, placing Lucien in peril. When a student at another school checks the book out for him, they become friends, and Lucien gets even more exposure to forbidden material. Inevitably, Lucien is tempted by the world beyond his restrictive school, and at the public library he becomes engrossed in Bernard Malamud’s The Natural. That mission comes with restrictions on reading material, technology, and even the colors that can be used, as Lucien learns when he paints a birdhouse black.

Leroux to foster living lives “free of negativity,” in harmony with nature. Unable to remain silent any longer, Lucien will soon discover that looking for answers at House of Earth may be the most dangerous rule he can break.When Lucien, the protagonist of this unconvincing, slow-moving thriller from Barkan ( Demolition Night), is six, his mother enrolls him in an eco-friendly upstate New York private school, House of Earth, where she works in recordkeeping. Continuing to meet Gabrielle in secret only reinforces his gnawing fear that something about his world is terribly wrong. As forbidden questions pile up, Lucien’s willingness to obey weakens. New rules are put in place, and anyone who violates them is asked to leave and never spoken of again. Slowly, things begin to change at House of Earth. But when his youthful curiosity draws him into town and to Gabrielle, a public-school student living a life wholly different from his own, Lucien’s inquisitiveness about life beyond the commune and questions regarding the events of 9/11 threaten to unbalance everything he thought he knew. It’s where Lucien is taught the importance of living in harmony with nature and building a peaceful and sustainable future. In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boys spark of courage to question. Lucien has everything he needs: a loving mama, a library full of books, and House of Earth, a private school nestled safely in the woods of upstate New York. Buy The Night Burns Bright by Ross Barkan for 43.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boy’s spark of courage to question the harmonious wooded commune he calls home may burn down more than just his own illusions.

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