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Ziba (Zee) is a loner. She likes to read Oscar Wilde and watch documentaries all day which, according to her parents, is 'not normal for 13 year olds'. They decide to send her on a five-day holiday camp 'to get to know people'. But Ziba would rather take a bath in Tabasco sauce than attend a camp called Youth Fusion. Especially when Madam Augustus, the Grand Poobah, declares a bonding game called 'Murder in the Dark'.

Anahita Rosalind Ghorban-Galaszczuk (yes, that really is her name but you can call her Ana) is discovering that life is absurd. As if dying of cancer at the age of 12.5 isn't bad enough, she still has to endure daily insults from her nemesis, Alyssa (Queen Mean) Anderson. Ana's on a wild roller-coaster of life and death, kindness and cruelty, ordinary and extraordinary. And she's got a few things to do before she exits....

Was braucht es eigentlich, um eine Heldin zu sein? Eine preisgekrönte Geschichte über Freundschaft - eindringlich und herrlich leicht. Hero fürchtet, ihrem Namen niemals gerecht werden zu können. Denn wie kann sie eine Heldin sein, wenn sie sich nicht einmal traut, etwas gegen das Mobbing an Aria zu unternehmen? Aria ist neu an der Schule, er kommt aus einem anderen Land und spricht kein Wort. Nie. Trotzdem freunden sich Hero und ihre beste Freundin Jaz mit ihm an. Immerhin können sie sich gemeinsam mit ihm im Kopierraum verstecken, wenn der fiese Mobber Rufus mal wieder hinter Aria her ist.

When Aria, a mysterious boy who never EVER speaks, starts at school and is picked on by His Royal Thug-ness Doofus (Rufus), Hero and her bestie Jaz feel compelled to help. But they're far too chicken to actually do anything heroic, so they befriend Aria and try to uncover the truth about him. What happened to his voice? Where did he come from? What are those three dents on his middle finger?

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