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  • Published: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.
  • Year Published: 2012
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Description: 384 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Language: English
  • Format: Book

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  • Lexile: 670

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  • 9780763653804
  • 0763653802

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Splendors and glooms

by Schlitz, Laura Amy.

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Call number: R Newbery Honor 2013, Y Fiction

Available Copies: Malletts Youth, NEW, Traverwood Youth, NEW, West Youth, NEW

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When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of kidnapping chases the trio away from London and soon the two orphans are caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it is too late.

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Dark but wonderful

This book won't be for everyone. It's often very dark and the villains are irredeemably bad. But for fans of Victorian Gothic novels it'll be a pip.

Reads like a better plotted, child's version of The Night Circus.

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