In a world where everyone is born with wings, stone monsters prowl the skies, hunting those who dare to fly too high.In the Clandoms, everyone is bo. Visit for more information.Jessica Khoury brings her masterful world-building and emotional depth to a brand-new fantasy series. April 9 at Fiction Addiction in Greenville. Join Khoury for the launch party of “Skyborn: Call of the Crow” from 2 to 4 p.m.

This is where I kind of thrive,” Khoury says. “I fell in love with reading when I was this age, so I feel like this is my most natural voice. All of her books are written for children or young adults. Her first book, “Origin” about a girl genetically engineered to be immortal and raised by a team of scientists in a secret Amazonian compound, was published in 2013. I’ve been dreaming about this world and these characters for that long, and they’ve developed slowly as my writing career has taken off.”Īn Easley resident, Khoury, is the author of 12 other books, including “ The Mystwick School of Musicraft,” which is being published concurrently with the Skyborn series. “It goes back to when I was a teenager, and I’d constantly draw the character of Ellie in my homework. “The idea (for this series) has been with me for many years,” Khoury says. Now they’re being hunted down by the king but don’t know why.

They’ve both just lost their homes, their families and everything that was familiar to them. Its sequel, “ Call of the Crow,” released April 5 and picks up with Ellie and Nox on the run. The first book in the Skyborn series, “ Sparrow Rising,” came out last fall. “Through him she learns that the world she lives in is not black and white and that sometimes the people you look up to let you down while the real heroes are hidden in the shadows,” Khoury says. The main character, Ellie, is a farm girl from the Sparrow clan who dreams of becoming a Goldwing - elite knights who protect her world from stone monsters that prowl the skies - but no Sparrow has ever become a knight.ĭetermined to prove her worth, Ellie sets off for the capital and along the way meets Nox, a boy from the downtrodden Crow clan who’s had to steal and scrape to get by. “It’s also a world with deep class divides embedded into the society, so it’s a story that deals with a lot of real world modern issues that we as a society face and that kids are starting to have questions about,” says Khoury. The books, which are suitable for elementary to middle school aged children, takes place in a fantastical world called the Clandoms, where everyone is born with wings and divided into societies by the kind of wings they have. A girl with wings dreams of becoming a knight in Jessica Khoury’s new middle reader series, “ Skyborn.”

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