Frances Hardinge, Author . HarperCollins $16.99 (487p) ISBN 978-0-06-087627-2
In a broken-down medieval kingdom where reading is forbidden, 12-year-old Mosca Mye is drawn to a traveling con artist who "brought phrases as vivid and strange as spices, and he smiled as he spoke, as if tasting them." Hardinge's...
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Frances Hardinge, Author . HarperCollins $16.99 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06-088038-5
British author Hardinge's (Fly by Night
) supernatural thriller takes off slowly but then becomes inescapably chilling. Stranded in a forbidden location, three friends steal coins from a wishing well to come up with bus fare. To their shock,...
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Frances Hardinge, Author . Harper $16.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-06-088041-5
British author Hardinge's latest feat is a luminous example of gifted storytelling at its best. Set on Gullstruck, an enchanted island of dueling dormant volcanoes, lush jungles and warring tribes, two sisters in a shunned race of perpetually...
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Frances Hardinge. Harper, $16.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-06-088044-6
In this exciting sequel to Fly by Night (2006), Hardinge's feisty heroine, Mosca Mye; her con-man companion, Eponymous Clent; and her fierce goose, Saracen, are on the run from the city of Mandelion, where they've helped foment a revolution. They...
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Frances Hardinge. Abrams/Amulet, $17.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1480-1
In this painful and powerful tale set in post-WWI England, readers meet 11-year-old Triss, the coddled daughter of a respected civil engineer and an overprotective mother, as well as her jealous younger sister, Pen. As the story opens, Triss has...
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Frances Hardinge. Abrams/Amulet, $17.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1895-3
In Hardinge’s (Cuckoo Song) superb tale of overarching ambition and crypto-botany, which recently won the Costa Book Award in the U.K., the Reverend Erasmus Sunderly, an eminent if unpleasant Victorian, has suddenly moved his family to a remote...
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Frances Hardinge. Amulet, $19.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2484-8
An amnesiac girl named Neverfell is thrust into court politics she can’t begin to understand in this complex, claustrophobic, and deeply compelling novel, originally published in the U.K. in 2012. The citizens of the mazelike underground city of...
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Frances Hardinge. Amulet, $19.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2572-2
As the English Civil War gains momentum, a girl named Makepeace Lightfoot attempts to uncover the shadowy secrets of her family history after her mother is killed. To do so, she travels to Grizehayes, the ancestral home of the father she never knew,
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Frances Hardinge. Amulet, $19.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4197-4320-7
For centuries, denizens of the Myriad archipelago “served, feared, and adored” the magical, monsterlike gods that routinely rose from the Undersea and terrorized them. Then, 30 years before this book’s beginning, the gods inexplicably slaughtered...
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Frances Hardinge, illus. by Emily Gravett. Amulet, $19.99 (120p) ISBN 978-1-4197-7433-1
Fourteen-year-old Milo sails a ship of souls to the realm of the dead in this elegiac fantasy from Hardinge (Unraveller). On Merlank, the dead linger until Milo’s father, the Ferryman, can deliver them to the Island of the Broken Tower, from which...
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