In Deadman's Castle, he brings readers a mystery filled with intrigue and moments of heart-stopping danger.Ī Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionĪ family perpetually flees from a man with a lizard tattoo in this intriguing middle grade mystery. Iain Lawrence is a winner of Canada's Governor General's Children's Literature Prize and the California Young Reader Medal. But soon, he begins noticing strange things around them-is it in his imagination? Or could the Lizard Man be real after all? Slowly, Igor starts bending the rules he's lived by all his life-making friends for the first time, testing the boundaries of where he's allowed to go in town. He's even starting to wonder-what if the Lizard Man only exists in his father's frightened mind? Stop worrying about how long it will be before his father hears someone prowling around their new house and uproots everything yet again. They've lived in so many places, with so many identities, that Igor can't even remember his real name.īut now he's twelve years old, and he longs for a normal life. When Igor was five, his father witnessed a terrible crime-and ever since, his whole family has been hunted by a foreboding figure bent on revenge, known only as the Lizard Man. Danger lurks around every corner-or so he's always been told. For most of his life, Igor and his family have been on the run.
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