Carli Rockell and the Fire Seed

Gravity is failing. Carli Rockell makes clay handprints on her potting shed wall - one for every year she's been forgotten. The Devoridges would rather pretend she doesn't exist. Her brother Devlin calls her Freakeyes. Her one friend is a talking bonsai named Friend. And she's learned to hide her blue eye from a world that stares.

All that changes when the Global School System announces a test run of a mysterious new high speed bus. Carli is the last person anyone expects to be chosen. The b...