The Cat's Cry

She lives in a School that breathes: the corridors expand and contract rhythmically. Blood gushes from the taps in the showers. Some students undergo transformation: one became porcelain, another — cardboard, a third grew a tentacle. The others do not change — and they are much scarier. No one remembers how they got here. No one can leave. She is a cat — a feline mask has grown onto her face. She has no eye left. She is strong, she is fast. She has forgotten her real name. Everyone calls her Cat. And when a sinister someone begins to kill the students one by one, she alone can find out who is doing this and stop the massacre. But for that, she must remember what happened before they all ended up in the School. Francesca Zappia wrote a terrifying story — a detective and mystical thriller mixed with a coming-of-age tale — that fans of Karen M. McManus, E. Lockhart, and Marieke Nijkamp will love. It is a story about cruelty. It is a story about fragility. It is a story about friendship, love, pain, violence, and masks. It is a story about bullying.