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389 pp.
| Candlewick |
October, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-7636-2930-8$15.99
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4-6
Maud achieves an orphan's dream when pretty Hyacinth Hawthorne brings her home. The discovery that the maiden Hawthorne sisters expect Maud to live as a "secret child" and help them with sham séances does nothing to dampen Maud's devotion to her charismatic guardian. Schlitz realizes both characters and setting (an early twentieth-century seaside town) with unerring facility, ending on a hard-won but triumphant note.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2006