Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow
$20.64
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2013
Summary
A frightening–and funny–debut comes to paperback.Adelaide Foss, Maggie Borland, and Beatrice Alfred are known by their classmates at Widowsbury’s Madame Gertrude’s School for Girls as “scary children.” Unfairly targeted because of their peculiarities-Adelaide has an uncanny resemblance to a werewolf, Maggie is abnormally strong, and Beatrice claims to be able to see ghosts-the girls spend a good deal of time isolated in the school’s inhospitable library facing detention. But when a number of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375872402 |
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| ISBN-10: | 037587240X |
| Author: | Katy Towell |
| Publisher: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Imprint: | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 157mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
“Towell tucks violent tempests, maggoty slime, hideous transformations, nightmares, sudden terrors and like atmosphere-building elements into a rousingly melodramatic literary debut.” —Kirkus Reviews
“If a studio hasn’t already snapped up the rights to a feature film, they would be fools not to do it.” —Edge
“A splendidly odd little tale.” —The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
About The Author
Katy Towell
KATY TOWELL is the creator of the Childrin R Skary website. She is also a graphic designer, writer, and illustrator in Los Angeles with dreams of one day being the scary old lady in the house about which all the neighborhood children tell ghost stories. When not doing these things, she collects antiques, strange teas, and carnivorous houseplants, and she plays a little tune on her violin now and again. She is currently working on her second middle-grade novel for Knopf Books for Young Readers.
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