War of the Wind

An award-winning climate fiction novel that explores unlikely friendships as a group of children with disabilities find themselves at the heart of an eco-mystery.

• Winner of the Glasgow School Librarie Book Award in 2023
  
• Nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal of 2024
• Shortlisted for the Leeds Book Award in 2023
• Shortlisted for the Falkirk RED Book Award in 2023
• Longlisted for the Sussex Amazing Book Awards in 2023
• A BookTrust Book of the Month
  
• A Financial Times Book of the Year
  
  

On a remote Scottish island, 14-year-old Max’s life is changed forever when he loses his hearing in a boating accident. Now, he has to navigate a new silent world alone—even his parents don’t understand that wearing a hearing aid doesn’t mean he can actually hear them, and he’s placed in a special educational needs class surrounded by kids he once picked on.

When people start acting strangely and Max’s hearing aid picks up odd sounds from a new wind farm off the coast, he suspects a sinister scientist is using wind turbines to experiment on the islanders. Could being different be an advantage? Max enlists the help of his classmates to shut down the government’s secret test before it spins out of control...