Thief

Lydia's last thought before darkness closed over her mind was that the strange, swirling storm had trapped her. Would it ever let her go?

Fleeing onto the moors when she is unfairly accused of theft, an extraordinary storm suddenly whirls twelve-year-old Lydia into the future - a computer-dominated future where her home town is now ruled by a cruel tyrant. But as Lydia struggles to get back to her own time, she must face a terrble confrontation...

A gripping novel from the award winning author of Hacker, Pig-Heart Boy and many other titles.

'Spellbinding...must surely establish Malorie Blckman as one of today's outstandingly imaginative and convincing writers' - The Junior Bookshelf

'Few writers can sustain a plot as well as Malorie Blackman' Sunday Telegraph