![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() her family will have one less mouth to feed. If she wins, she'll earn a fortune for her struggling family. All that changes when Daisy is recruited for a dangerous competition in which daring (and ideally, orphaned children) train flying horses to battle the monsters that lurk beneath Coal Top. Daisy can't stomach the idea of that kind of life, but what choice does she have? Especially when her family is counting on her wages to survive. In her mining town, Coal Top, boys leave school at 12 to work in the mines, and girls leave to work as servants for the rich people. Twelve-year-old Daisy's prospects are grim. The highly anticipated new novel from Natalie Lloyd, the critically-acclaimed, bestselling author of A Snicker of Magic! ![]()
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