The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

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Call Number: Y Fiction / Legrand, Claire
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.

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Spooky and fantastic submitted by wampishing on June 24, 2013, 2:53pm Fastidious Victoria has a single friend, the sloppy and absent minded musician Lawrence. She considers him her personal project, and their friendship a sort of community service. But when Lawrence disappears, Victoria finds that she's the only one to care, the only one who finds something wrong with the silence ringing where Lawrence's piano music should be playing. She notices with mounting horror that all the children who don't quite fit the town's idea of normal have quietly gone missing, forgotten by their loved ones, secreted away amongst chittering insects and butterscotch candies to the paradoxical and unsettling Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls. Haunting, clever, and unpredictable, this dark tale of friendship should appeal to fans of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and similar stories. Obviously flawed, ambitious, smart, and loyal despite herself, Victoria makes for a refreshingly atypical type-A heroine. Setting her protagonist against a villain made more chilling by her ultimate similarities to Victoria herself, Legrand weaves a suspenseful tale that culminates in an ending both satisfying and unsettling.

Amazing submitted by Verena03 on June 17, 2014, 5:00pm This book is about a girl named Victoria who likes everything nice and neat. Her only friend is Lawrence who is the exact opposite of her. Then, kids in her class disappear and one day, Lawrence goes along with them. She goes on an adventure to find him an on that adventure endures weird bugs, a lady who is more wicked than she seems and the Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls.