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455 pp.
| Candlewick |
July, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-5808-3$16.99
(2)
YA
Cora, sent with her little sister to crumbling Guerdon Hall, learns that the family has suffered a string of child deaths and abductions. Delving into Guerdon history, she and a local boy increasingly see ghosts of the children and of a tormented Elizabethan priest. This post–World War II horror fantasy, told in three voices, evokes the eastern England setting with earthy richness.
Reviewer: Deirdre F. Baker
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2012