Boy Who Carried the Light

In the riverside town of Avesha, in the small country of Marenne, eleven-year-old Teo keeps a secret book. Into it he writes the name of every person, every animal, and every small beloved thing the world is about to forget–because his grandmother taught him that a name is a light, and that as long as one person remembers it, nothing is ever truly gone.Then the soldiers come.The army they call the...