"First published in 2013 by Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England."

Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor

"The explosive winner of the 2014 Carnegie Medal"--jacket

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Decoding demand: 94 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 80 (high) Structure demand: 85 (very high)