A ‘Piece of Passion’ from Scholastic Children’s Books Senior Fiction Editor Zoe Duncan:
I have always felt privileged to work with Maggie Stiefvater. She is immensely talented and all her books have been absorbing, brilliant and completely impossible to put down. When I was first sent The Scorpio Races, I was so excited. Here was a brand new story that Maggie had put her soul into. I stayed up all night and I wasn’t disappointed. In fact, I was blown away. The Scorpio Races is exceptional. It’s exhilarating and special. It will make your heart race.
In creating the savage water horses, the cappaill uisce (pronounced COPple Ooshka), Maggie has brought to life dangerous yet beautiful creatures. As they gallop along the beach you can smell the sea and hear the waves. You understand why the sand is soaked with blood.
One of Maggie’s many talents is her ability to make you fall so completely for her characters. Her heroes in The Scorpio Races feel incredibly real. They are fascinating and complex. I wish I was half as brave as Puck. I wish everyone had Sean’s silent strength and honest goodness.
The Scorpio Races is an adventure, a fantasy, a heart-wrenching ride, but more than anything it’s a love story. And no one writes love like Maggie.
You can also hear from Maggie herself. Click here to read a very special letter from Maggie Stiefvater about her new book.
And as an added bonus: Maggie's publisher Scholastic have created a fabulous free newpaper for teens featuring a variety of their fantastic teen titles. Click here to have a read.
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Stay alive, stay astride, stay out of the water...
Every November, the Scorpio Races are run beneath the chalk cliffs of Skarmouth.
Thousands gather to watch the horses and the sea that washes the blood from the sand.
The mounts are capaill uisce: savage water horses.
There are no horses more beautiful, more fearless, more deadly. To race them can be suicide but the danger is irresistible.
Sean Kendrick knows the dangers of the capaill uisce. With one foot in the ocean and one on land, he is the only man on the island capable of taming the beasts. He races to prove something both to himself and to the horses.
Puck Connolly enters the races to save her family. But the horse she rides is an ordinary little mare, just as Puck is an ordinary girl.
When Sean sees Puck on the beach he doesn't think she belongs. He doesn't realize his fate will become entwined in hers.
They both enter the Races hoping to change their lives. But first they'll have to survive.
PRAISE FOR SCORPIO RACES
"If The Scorpio Races sounds like nothing you've ever read, that's because it is. The capaill uisce are exhilarating, frightening creations... Stiefvater has successfully plumbed lesser-known myths and written a complex literary thriller" - New York Times
The bestselling author of Shiver (2009) and Linger (2010) turns the legend of the water horse into a taut, chilling, romantic adventure. The water horses are breathtakingly well-imagined, glorious and untamably violent. The final race, with Sean and Puck each protecting each other but both determined to win, comes to a pitch-perfect conclusion. Masterful. Like nothing else out there now. - Kirkus Review
The Scorpio Races features in the following genres: Young Adult Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommendations
The Scorpio Races is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Scorpio Races was written by Maggie Stiefvater and published by Scholastic
The Scorpio Races has 482 pages
