The Moth Who Ate the Lantern

About this book

In the Lantern Reach, ships are pulled across a black sky-sea by giant moths, and whoever owns the lanterns owns the sky. Pim Halloway is eleven, a lamp-scrubber on a slow cargo ship, with soot under her nails and a habit of humming when she's scared. She is not brave, and she is definitely not special. So why is she standing on the head of a moth bigger than a moon, while every light in the Reach goes out at once? This story is told to you, and it is told backward, one step further into the past with every chapter: back through a rebellion, a friendship with the Admiral's own son, and a home island lost in the dark, toward a small moment nobody noticed. To find out why the Moth chose your hand, you will have to go all the way back.