Half Bad

A Spring 2014 Kids' Indie Next Pick In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and Nathan, who is both. Nathan's father is the world's most powerful Black witch. His mother is dead. He is trapped in a cage. Nathan must escape before his seventeenth birthday to receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch — or he will die. But how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust?