First printing. Very light tanning to page edges. Unclipped DJ has light shelf wear. Signed by Colfer on the half title page. 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 never thought he'd have to return. the dreaded Clarissa Frayne.

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The Supernaturalist tells the story of thirteen-year-old Cosmo Hill, an orphan in Satellite City. Cosmo and the other orphans are abused and used at the "Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys" and escape as soon as they can! Cosmo finds himself in the company of "Supernaturalists" who have special abilites that allow them to see strange blue parasites who feed on the life force of injured people. They spend their nights destroying the parasties to save humanity, or so they believe. Winner of the Golden Duck Award , Eleanor Cameron Award for Middle Grades , Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Intermediate (2007) , Michigan Library Association Thumbs Up! Award Nominee (2005)

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Bookseller: Books-and-records.com, IOBA (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4745
Title: The Supernaturalist (Signed)
Author: Eoin Colfer
Format/Binding: Light age tanning to top page edges.
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0141380403
ISBN 13: 9780141380407
Publisher: Puffin Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2004
Bookseller catalogs: Signed Books;

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