Little Sanctuary is the story of Sabel and her sisters, sent away to a school that's more dangerous than the falling-apart world they are escaping.

Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Toronto. His novels, which include Original Prin and Dante's Indiana, have been nominated for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He lives in Toronto with his wife and four daughters. Little Sanctuary is his first novel for young readers.