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167 pp.
| Dial |
May, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8037-3837-9$16.99
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4-6
When eleven-year-old Olivia moves to Birmingham, Alabama, she is incredibly lonesome without any friends, a dislocation that rings particularly true. She spots a message on her favorite café's bathroom wall--"We are Plantagenet. We are chosen"--and begins investigating its source, wondering just what the references mean. Despite plenty of initial tension, the plot fails to sustain the book's concept.