Staff Pick of the Week: The Death-Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine McCaughrean

This week's book pick is The Death-Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine McCaughrean.

On the day he was born, Pepper Roux's Aunt Mireille declared he would be dead by fourteen. No one dared to question this prediction, as it came to Aunt Mireille in a dream and was told to her by Saint Constance. How could you argue with such a vision? And now it's Pepper's fourteenth birthday, and surely the inevitable will happen. But what if it doesn't? Could Pepper possibly defy his destiny and stay alive?