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308 pp.
| Candlewick |
June, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-5980-6$16.99
(2)
YA
In Florence for the summer, May is visited repeatedly by Cristofana, a sinister, inscrutable girl from the past who resembles May enough to be her identical twin. Cristofana has found a portal to the present day and would like nothing more than to switch places with May permanently. Writing in the third-person present tense, Noyes creates an eerie mood and limns a hauntingly vivid landscape.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2013