- Girls & Women, Secrets, Fantasy & Magic, Fiction
Now that the strange war is over, sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister struggle to maintain their family farm, waiting to see who will return from the distant battlefield, soon hiring a veteran to help them but, as ugly truths about their family emerge, Hallie is taking dangerous risks and keeping desperate secrets while monsters and armies converge on the small farm.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Leah Bobet
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 391
- Publisher
- Scholastic Canada, Clarion Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780544281110
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