num_pages: 256
description: I was special. I was a hero. I lost the best friend I ever had.Eleven-year-old Maggie lives in Fennis Wick enclosed and protected from the outside world by a boundary beyond which the Quiet War rages and the dirty dangerous wanderers roam.Her brother Jed is an eldest revered and special. A hero. Her younger brother is Trig  everyone loves Trig. But Maggies just a middler; invisible and left behind. Then one hot September day she meets Una a hungry wanderer girl in need of help and everything Maggie has ever known gets turned on its head.
language: English
title: The Middler
publisher: Nosy Crow