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The stunning sequel to Maria Dahvana Headley's bestselling, critically acclaimed Magonia tells the story of one girl who must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes—and two versions of herself.

Aza Ray is back on earth. Her boyfriend, Jason, is overjoyed. Her family is healed. She's living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you've spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world.

As in, not normal. Part of Aza still yearns for the clouds, no matter how much she loves the people on the ground.

When Jason's paranoia over Aza's safety causes him to make a terrible mistake, Aza finds herself a fugitive in Magonia, tasked with opposing her radical, bloodthirsty, recently escaped mother, Zal Quel, and her singing partner, Dai. She must travel to the edge of the world in search of a legendary weapon, the Flock, in a journey through fire and identity that will transform her forever.

Told in Maria Headley's trademark John Green–meets–Neil Gaiman style, Aerie is sure to satisfy the many readers who can't wait to return to the spellbinding world of Magonia.

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    • Kirkus

      A year after she died and discovered her nonhuman origins, Aza is drawn back into the conflicts between Earth and Magonia (Magonia, 2015).Aza Ray Boyle had once been a white girl, dying since she was a toddler. When she died, she discovered she was truly indigo-skinned Aza Ray Quel, daughter of pirate Capt. Quel of Magonia. There, where the sky people control the weather, bird folk steer sailing ships amid squallwhales and stormsharks. Aza's returned to Earth in the (soon-to-be-shed) borrowed skin of a black girl, disguised as an exchange student and dating her real boyfriend, Jason. Their peaceful year concludes when Jason--concerned by reports that a Magonian assassin is after Aza--goes full stalker and turns her in to a creepy government agency for her own protection. Biracial (black/white) Jason, who has an OCD-like disability, soon regrets his decision, but when he tries to enlist his mothers' help, they fear for his sanity and have him institutionalized. Alternating Aza and Jason chapters have lovely, lyrical, and nigh-indistinguishable voices (Jason says he's "turned inside out, a sweater tugged over a head and unraveled into yarn"; Aza calls herself "flat origami, all the folds crushed in on themselves"). This is pure science fantasy in a mishmash magical world, absent the character realism that opened Book 1, but it'll keep readers moving. Though imperfect, a well-paced, cinematic adventure with shape-shifting birds to keep things exciting. (Fantasy. 12-14) COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

    • Kirkus

      September 1, 2016
      A year after she died and discovered her nonhuman origins, Aza is drawn back into the conflicts between Earth and Magonia (Magonia, 2015).Aza Ray Boyle had once been a white girl, dying since she was a toddler. When she died, she discovered she was truly indigo-skinned Aza Ray Quel, daughter of pirate Capt. Quel of Magonia. There, where the sky people control the weather, bird folk steer sailing ships amid squallwhales and stormsharks. Aza's returned to Earth in the (soon-to-be-shed) borrowed skin of a black girl, disguised as an exchange student and dating her real boyfriend, Jason. Their peaceful year concludes when Jason--concerned by reports that a Magonian assassin is after Aza--goes full stalker and turns her in to a creepy government agency for her own protection. Biracial (black/white) Jason, who has an OCD-like disability, soon regrets his decision, but when he tries to enlist his mothers' help, they fear for his sanity and have him institutionalized. Alternating Aza and Jason chapters have lovely, lyrical, and nigh-indistinguishable voices (Jason says he's "turned inside out, a sweater tugged over a head and unraveled into yarn"; Aza calls herself "flat origami, all the folds crushed in on themselves"). This is pure science fantasy in a mishmash magical world, absent the character realism that opened Book 1, but it'll keep readers moving. Though imperfect, a well-paced, cinematic adventure with shape-shifting birds to keep things exciting. (Fantasy. 12-14)

      COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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  • ATOS Level:4.6
  • Lexile® Measure:680
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:3

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