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The Sisters of Straygarden Place

The Sisters of Straygarden Place

Hardcover

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 153621227X
ISBN13: 9781536212273
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: Oct 13 2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A riveting middle-grade fantasy about sibling bonds, enchanted houses, and encroaching wildness, lyrically told in eerily beautiful prose

Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. Wait for us, the note read. Sleep darkly. Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and grown up and played a guessing game: Think of an animal, think of a place. Think of a person, think of a face. Until one day, when the eldest, fourteen-year-old Winnow, does the unthinkable and goes outside into the grass, and everything twelve-year-old Mayhap thought she knew about her home, her family, and even herself starts to unravel. With luscious, vivid prose, poet and author Hayley Chewins transports readers to a house where beloved little dogs crawl into their owners' minds to sleep, sick girls turn silver, and anything can be stolen--even laughter and silence.

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