The Shimmers in the Night: A Novel
The Second Book of the Dissenters Series
Lydia Millet (Author)
Reading level: Ages 9 and up
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Big Mouth House (September 25, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193152078X
ISBN-13: 978-1931520782


Cara's mother is still missing. When her brother Jax texts her from "smart kid's boot camp" in Boston, Cara and her two best friends go to the rescue. But the camp is a front for Cara's mother's organization who are fighting against a force who wants to make the planet over in its own image, which will leave no space for anything else, animal, insect, or human.


About the Author
Lydia Millet: Lydia Millet is the author of many novels for adult readers, including My Happy Life, which won the PEN-USA Award for Fiction in 2003, and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, about the scientists who designed the first atomic bomb, which was shortlisted for the UK’s Arthur C. Clarke Prize. She has taught at Columbia University and the University of Arizona and now works as a writer and editor at an endangered-species protection group called the Center for Biological Diversity.