Giant Days

Non Pratt

Chapters (19)

Cover

Dedication

For Robin,
my fellow Giant Days fan

Copyright Page

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pratt, Non, author.

Title: Giant days / by Non Pratt.

Description: New York: Amulet Books, 2018. | Summary: Although very different, Daisy, Susan, and Esther become fast friends their first week at university so when Daisy joins a club and begins behaving very strangely, Susan and Esther investigate.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018009604 | ISBN 9781419731266 (hardcover with jacket) | ISBN 9781683353942 (ebook)

Subjects: | CYAC: Best friends—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Secret societies—Fiction. | Universities and colleges—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.P8888 Gi 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 U.K. Paperback ISBN 978-1-4197-3488-5

Jacket illustrations by Michael Heath

Book design by Jay Marvel

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Title Page

1
FIRE IN THE HALL

It looked as if someone had started a small fire in a prison block. Only the prison was actually part of the student residence for Sheffield University. J-block, Catterick Hall, to be precise. Smoke wafted gently from one of the upper windows, wispy fingers caressing the bright October sky . . . and clawing at the lungs of anyone unlucky enough to be standing downwind. J-block had been evacuated, and a Saturday-afternoon assortment of first-year students littered the quad. Those still dressed in pajamas and bathrobes mixed with those already preparing for the night ahead—party clothes on, hair half-styled, and makeup in the experimental stage. In the midst of this lackluster chaos stood Susan Ptolemy, Daisy Wooton, and Esther de Groot.

The three were a mix and mismatch of aesthetics. Daisy’s clothes were as bright and colorful as Esther’s were dark and macabre. Susan’s preference for function over fashion gave her the look of a stray dog that had been shoved inside some comfy jeans and a tattered checked shirt. The three friends were, nonetheless, united in their focus.