num_pages: 288
description: Fifteen-year-old Kivali has never fit in. As a girl in boys clothes she is accepted by neither tribe bullied by both. What are you? they ask. Abandoned as a baby wrapped in a T-shirt with an image of a lizard on the front Kivali found a home with nonconformist artist Sheila. Is it true what Sheila says that Kivali was left by a mysterious race of saurians and that shell one day save the world? Kivali doesnt think so. But if it is true why has Sheila sent her off to CropCamp with its schedules and regs and what feels like indoctrination into a gov-controlled society Kivali isnt sure has good intentions?But life at CropCamp isnt all bad. Kivali loves being outdoors and working in the fields. And for the first time she has real friends: sweet innocent Rasta; loyal Emmett; fierce quiet Nona. And then theres Sully. The feelings that explode inside Kivali whenever Sully is nearwhenever they touchare unlike anything shes experienced exhilarating and terrifying. But does Sully feel the same way?Between mysterious disappearances tough questions from camp director Ms. Mischetti and weekly doses of kickshawthe strange druglike morsel that Kivali fears but has come to cravethings get more and more complicated. But Kivali has an escape: her unique ability to channel and explore the power of her animal self. She has Lizard Radio.Will it be enough to save her?
language: English
title: Lizard Radio
publisher: Candlewick Press