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252 pp.
| Clarion |
October, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-618-92722-7$16.00
(3)
YA
Isabella, a mysterious girl with green skin and long fingernails, awakens in 1586 after a three-hundred-year sleep in the forest. She is befriended by Elizabeth Dyer, whose Catholic family is undergoing persecution by Queen Elizabeth. As this unusual, captivating novel travels back and forth between the girls' parallel lives and into the "shadow land," Singleton skillfully balances historical fiction and fantasy.