ZIZOU CORDER is the pen name for a mother-daughter team of authors. Louisa Young grew up in London and studied history at Cambridge. She has written another trilogy for adults featuring a belly-dancing, motorcycle-riding single mom ("Baby Love, Desiring Cairo", and "Tree of Pearls"), as well as a non-fiction book, "The Book of the Heart". Her ten-year-old daughter, Isabel Adomakoh Young contributed plot and character details, some of which mirror her own life-like Charlie, the hero of "Lionboy" Isabel is the child of an English woman and an African man and, also like Charlie, she suffers a
Charlie Ashanti is the son of two scientists who are kidnapped as the result of a dramatic discovery they've made (the cure for asthma, which is rampant in this near-future world). Ten-year-old Charlie decides to go in search of them, and uses his ability...[SEE MORE]