I Am Number Four
Pittacus Lore, 1897
Young adult FantasyScience fictionContemporary fiction
Nine alien children hide on Earth, waiting to be hunted in order. A fast, first-person thrill ride of superpowers, small towns and a countdown.
Feels like dread and hope. About society, morality and family.
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Sometimes the missing happens with the person still in the room.
That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway. Pittacus Lore.The name on the cover is a persona: James Frey and Jobie Hughes wrote the novel, while the publisher presented Pittacus Lore as a real Lorien elder, complete with a backstory and no photograph.
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- Feels like dread and hope. About society, morality and family.
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