The Boy to Beat the Gods

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WEEK JUNIOR BOOK AWARDS, THE JHALAK PRIZE AND THE BRANFORD BOASE AWARD</b><br><br><b>"Thrilling, tautly-written, pulls you right in and keeps you there! Plus: bonus trickster god!" Louie Stowell, author of <i>Loki</i></b><br><b>"A fast-paced, first-class debut with action scenes that will leave you breathless and characters who will have you cheering. I loved it!" A.F. Steadman, author of the <i>Skandar </i>series</b><br><b><br>Discover a fierce and fun story of one boy versus six gods, from a magical new voice in children's fiction..</b>.<br><br>Kayode dreams of eating the forbidden fruit of the Orishas, so he can gain the power of the gods and stop them terrorizing his people. So when a fruit mysteriously appears in his path after the Orishas snatch his sister, he leaps on it.<br>Surging with new and difficult-to-control powers, he joins forces with a shapeshifting trickster god and a vengeful princess to save his sister and put an end to the mighty Orishas. But each has more fearful powers than the last - and Kayode's stolen half-god strength won't last for ever...</p>