cover image A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY

A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Libba Bray, . . Delacorte, $8.95 (403pp) ISBN 978-0-385-73231-4

In a starred review, PW called this debut novel set in Victorian times "riveting." When the 16-year-old narrator's mother dies, the teen envisions how it happened, then finds herself en route to a British boarding school. "The pace is swift, the finale gripping." Ages 12-up. (Mar.)