The story of'Circulate' is told via emails, text messages and diary entries of the 16 yearold Australian character, Elisha Baker.The main character is sent overseas at first against her choice, to aninternational boarding school in Ontario, Canada called Hamilton's College. As Elisha isadjusting to her new surroundings, by chance one late night she and two friendswitness a supernatural occurrence.Elisha and her new friends then come to believe that this school ishaunted and decide to investigate the apparitions and to ultimately understandwhy they were chosen. As they continueforward to find answers, they only seem to come across more questions. Feelings of mistrust begin to divide the newfriendships and Elisha even begins to become suspicious of her teachers. The investigationscome to a climatic end when one night, Elisha and her friends are caughtbreaking into the Principal's office.That night they are told the truth by their teachers... that the 'ghosts'they believed they had seen, were in fact members of a secular group of timetravelers from the Circulate. Thesepeople have the ability to phase through the layers of time and during thisprocess, would appear ghostly to an outsider.From this, they also learn the reason why Elisha and the rest of thestudents had been invited to study at this College, is because they will alsoone day be able to do this too. From this momentonwards, Elisha and her friends' whole perception of the world, space and timeis changed. Everything that they hadpreviously known or been taught, is turned upside down, as they relearn newangles to the previously established ideas in the world of modern man. Time is no longer linear and the history ofmankind could be their playground.
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When troubled teen Elisha wakes up in a strange bed with a sore head and bandaged wrists she has no way of knowing just how far from home she really is. Having been transported to a strange school in a distant land without her knowledge or consent, she struggles to understand this place that has become her new home. Making friends and learning lessons isn't the difficult part however, rather it is coming to terms with the ghostly apparitions that infest the grounds that proves to be the real challenge.Could the school be haunted or is there another even stranger explanation for what is going on around them? And just how could the love of Elisha's life turn out to be a man who died centuries before she was even born? Find out what lies on the other side of the mirror in this superb novel that mixes drama with science-fiction and ghost-stories.
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- Release Date 04/07/2011
- Authors K.R. Smith, Isabel de Sequera
- Language English
- Company K.R. Smith
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