Emma Trevayne
Bio:Emma Trevayne is the author of several sci-fi and fantasy novels for young adults and children. Her first novel, Coda, was released by Running Press Kids in May 2013, and will be followed by a companion novel, Chorus, in Spring 2014. Her middle-grade debut, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times, is also debuting in Spring 2014 from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, and The Cabinet of Curiosities, an anthology of scary stories written with three other middle-grade authors, will be released by Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins in Summer 2014. When not writing, she is traveling, listening to music, eating chocolate, and wishing she was writing. She can be found on the
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here.CodaEver since he was a young boy, music has coursed through the veins of eighteen-year-old Anthem—the Corp has certainly seen to that. By encoding music with addictive and mind-altering elements, the Corp holds control over all citizens, particularly conduits like Anthem, whose life energy feeds the main power in the Grid.Anthem finds hope and comfort in the twin siblings he cares for, even as he watches the life drain slowly and painfully from his father. Escape is found in his underground rock band, where music sounds free, clear, and unencoded deep in an abandoned basement. But when a band member dies suspiciously from a tracking overdose, Anthem knows that his time has suddenly become limited. Revolution all but sings in the air, and Anthem cannot help but answer the call with the chords of choice and free will. But will the girl he loves help or hinder him?