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SPLENDORS AND GLOOMS

Splendor and Glooms
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Schlitz
Author's First Name: 
Laura Amy
Publisher: 
Candlewick
Publication Month: 
August
Publication Date: 
2012

After a wealthy family hires Grisini, a talented street puppeteer, and his orphaned apprentices to entertain for their daughter Clara on her 12th birthday, Clara and Grisini disappear. In the search for Clara, the orphans encounter and outsmart both evil and magic.

SILHOUETTED BY THE BLUE

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Jones
Author's First Name: 
Traci L.
Publisher: 
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 
2011

Season of Secrets

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
NIchols
Author's First Name: 
Sally
Publisher: 
Arthur A. Levine
Publication Date: 
2011
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Molly and her sister Hannah are reluctantly living with their Grandparents after the sudden death of their mother because their father is unable to care for them. Molly encounters the Green man, the god of spring, who becomes her object of care and concern and as she deals with her loneliness, her sister’s anger and her father’s “inability to cope”.

THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE

THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Nelson
Author's First Name: 
Jandy
Publisher: 
Dial
Publication Date: 
2010

Devastated when her older sister Bailey dies suddenly, Lennie's life becomes even more complicated when she finds she has feelings for both her sister’s grieving boyfriend and the new boy in town. She expresses her confusion in poems that she scatters everywhere.

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