Silver Skin

Shortlisted for the Scottish Teenage Book PrizeSkara Brae, Orkney, during the Neolithic period. The sun is dying, crops are failing and the local inhabitants fear that the end of the world is near. When a strange boy appears from nowhere, dressed in an odd silver suit - his ''silver skin'' - the community is thrown into confusion. Who is he, where is he from, and why has he come? Is he a selkie or...