Billy: Messenger of Powers (Billy Jones #1)

Billy: Messenger of Powers (Billy Jones #1)
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August 10, 2010
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978-1434411501
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"BILLY WAS ONLY THIRTEEN YEARS OLD THE FIRST TIME HE DIED." And with those words the saga of Billy Jones begins with BILLY: MESSENGER OF POWERS. Billy, like many of us, leads what he believes is a fairly normal life: trying to get through school, trying to deal with his first crush, and trying to avoid the bullies who seem intent on trying to prove he can be flushed down a toilet. But all that changes (or at least some of it) when Billy discovers that Powers walk among us. These Powers (what you or I would call witches or warlocks) have divided into two camps: the Dawnwalkers, dedicated to the protection of humanity and the secrecy of the world of the Powers; and the Darksiders, who want nothing more or less than complete control of the world and the enslavement of all humanity. For years the Darksiders and Dawnwalkers have lived in a state of uneasy truce: ever since the last War of the Powers, when the evil Darksider Wolfen was defeated and banished, cast out of the world of the Powers and ordered never to return. But now there are whispers. There are stirrings. Portents. Wolfen has returned. The Darksiders are on the rise. And Billy is the only one who can save the world.

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Billy: MESSENGER OF POWERS did the impossible: it knocked Harry Potter off his pedestal as greatest YA fantasy character ever.  Billy is a high school freshman, young for his age, who somehow manages to antagonize every student and teacher in his high school.  Until, that is, Billy finds out that he is a Power: one of the witches and wizards who control the six elements of earth, water, fire, wind, life, and death.  More than that, he is perhaps the key to finding out secret to the return of the White King, the greatest Power of all time who has sward to protect the world of the Powers.  Now Billy must fight to stay alive as he is thrust into the forefront of the greatest War of the Powers to ever occur.
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