"An enthralling fantasy in the Harry Potter tradition."-- Time magazine

"A bewitching new thriller." -- The Wall Street Journal

In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and sixteen-year-old Nathan, who is both. Nathan's father is the world's most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted from all sides. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, Nathan must escape before his seventeenth birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch--or else he will die. But how can Nathan find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is no one safe to trust--not even family, not even the girl he loves?

In the tradition of Patrick Ness and Markus Zusak, Half Bad is a gripping tale of alienation and the indomitable will to survive, a story that will grab hold of you and not let go until the very last page.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Speak
Published: 01/13/2015
ISBN: 9780147511461
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.10d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 164276 / Half Bad
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12