Wow--no one I've met has ever heard of Scirocco or Sirocco before. :D (The reason I prefer it with the extra C is because then it gets a good "SH" noise at the beginning, and that's also the way I first heard it--in the lyrics of a song describing a woman as "a scirocco on the sand.") This is very exciting, mon amie.
And if you read it and like it, you'll be the first person I've converted to
Armageddon Summer. It's hard to resist it, IMO--Yolen and Coville are both fantastic writers, and together they're even better. (If you haven't read
Jane Yolen's
Briar Rose, you're seriously missing out on some fascinating Holocaust fiction.)
Array (will be nineteen in July--so she isn't
exactly eighteen, lol)
Always remember the Fitz family motto: Believe in yourself, believe in others, and work like hell.
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.