New, never read. In Darkness is written by Nick lake and was awarded the Michael L. Printz award for excellence in young adult literature by the American Library Association. In Darkness is also a Carnegie Medal finalist, A YALSA best fiction for young adults pick, A Bank Street best children's book of the Year pick, a kirkus best teen book, a teenreads.com choice book of the Year nominee. Some quotes by highly reputable print journalism. "Gripping" - New York times "Remarkable" -The Wall Street journal "A dark journey well worth taking, and grossing, disturbing, illuminating" -kirkus reviews, starred review. "A striking cast of characters, compelling tension." -SLJ, starred review. "Stunningly original and hard-hitting." - William Sutcliffe, author of the wall, a finalist for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize. A short brief of in darkness..... Shorty is a Haitian boy trapped in ruins after the Earth explodes around him. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing week, shorty senses his death is imminent. Yet as he waits in darkness for a rescue that may never happen, he becomes aware of another presence reaching out to him across 200 years of history. It is the former slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint l'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence and whose own and came in darkness. What unites a child of the slums with the man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they share.. or is it hope?