The Hazel Wood / Melissa Albert.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Large print editionDescription: 457 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781432846176
- 1432846175
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book
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Main Library | Large Print Fiction | Albert, Melissa | Available | 33111009570306 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Hot title at the 2016 Frankfurt Book FairMovie rights to Columbia PicturesSeventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away ― by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set.
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When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.
Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get.
Grades 9-11.