Name: Lost Boy
Author: Christina Henry

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What's in this book, at a glance — five things readers want to know before they start.

Violence

A lot

Violence among the lost boys; Peter's cruelty; deaths of children treated with horror rather than adventure

Language

Some

Some strong language in a dark fairy tale register

Sexual Content

None

No romantic or sexual content

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

A lot

The specific terror of manipulation by someone you've trusted your whole life; the disillusionment of realizing the hero was always the villain; grief over a childhood that was actually captivity

What this book is about

Jamie is the first lost boy — the one who has been with Peter Pan the longest, who has fought alongside him, who has trusted him most. But Peter never ages, never changes, never tires of his games — and his games have always required a kind of brutal loyalty from the boys. When a new boy named Charlie arrives and Peter begins to treat him as a favorite, Jamie starts to see what has always been true about Neverland. Christina Henry's dark retelling of Peter Pan is a story about the horror of eternal youth when youth is enforced — and about what it costs to finally grow up.