Beneath Caaqi's Wings by Rich Shapero

When their parents are called away to quell an uprising, a terrible fire erupts and the children have to face the challenges of survival on their own. WIth fable-like resonance and unflinching vision, Beneath Caaqi's Wings imagines the tribulations of a teenage society without adults and suggests how the passage into adulthood demands a confrontation with darker impusles that lurk inside us all.