When his class goes on a field trip and he can see a wall that no one else can see, he is given the chance to go to school in the Borderlands. He’s smart and just a tiny bit obnoxious. "That is badass." Elliot? Who’s Elliot? Elliot is thirteen years old. "My full name is Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle." Elliot’s mouth fell open. "What’s your name?" "Serene." "Serena?" Elliot asked. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and ― best of all as far as Elliot is concerned ― mermaids. Don’t try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border ― unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. "The Borderlands aren’t like anywhere else. It’s a novel about surviving four years in the most unusual of schools, about friendship, falling in love, diplomacy, and finding your own place in the world ― even if it means giving up your phone.". In Other Lands is the exhilarating new book from beloved and bestselling author Sarah Rees Brennan. There’s even the chance Elliot might be able to change the world. On the other hand, there’s Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle, an elven warrior who is more beautiful than anyone Elliot has ever seen, and then there’s her human friend Luke: sunny, blond, and annoyingly likeable. It turns out that on the other side of the wall, classes involve a lot more weaponry and fitness training and fewer mermaids than he expected.
Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise), teenaged Elliott, a human transported to a fantasy world where he attends a school for warriors and diplomatic advisers, finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, may actually be possbile
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