Flye on the Wall - Paperback

by Mariah Burnes (Author)

When Flye Shannahan's intellectually snobbish parents decide that she isn't being challenged in middle school, she skips eighth grade and ends up as a freshman at New Hope High, a preppy suburban school in North Carolina. Her classmates are turning fifteen next month when she turned thirteen just last week. Flye is thrown into an endless power struggle for popularity, and she might not make it out-until she finds the Box. Part forgotten storage space, part safe refuge, the Box is a room in the basement where Flye can listen in on everything that's happening through the school, thanks to the air vents that carry sounds from all corners of the building. The Box gives Flye the upper hand over everyone in the school, but can she overcome the urge to join the mad dash to be popular? And when she overhears a harsh whisper that threatens to put the whole school in serious danger, what can a small, brainy thirteen-year-old do to save it?

Author Biography

Mariah Burne is a former English teacher and a freelance writer. Her work has appeared in Colorado Woman News and SCBWI Carolina's, as well as other publications. She is a former reporter/photographer for The Southwest Denver Herald Dispatch and is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She has an M.A. in Gifted Education from the University of Denver with a concentration in creative writing. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with her husband and their menagerie of animals. Flye on the Wall is her first novel.