num_pages: 291
description: Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong. He can feel his life force ebbing away, sucked out of him by a strange blue Parasite until a wisecracking gang of kids burst in, blast the creature and save him. They are the Supernaturalists, dedicated to ridding the world of these life-sucking blue parasites. When they realise that Cosmo has the ability to see these blue creatures too, they enlist him as one of them. Their mission leads Cosmo into a world of high-level corruption, James Bond type technology, thrilling adventure and finally back to a place that Cosmo ever thought he'd have to return...the dreaded Clarissa Frayne.
language: English
title: The Supernaturalist
titlecomplete: The Supernaturalist
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Paranormal, Childrens, Fantasy, Supernatural, Dystopia
ratings_count: 28422
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Golden Duck Award
category: Middle Grades (Eleanor Cameron Award), awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Evergreen Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award
publisher: Puffin Books