- Young adult fiction, Teenage girls, Storytelling, Fairies
Thusly named by her stepmother's accusation of being poisonous, Poison is a smart aleck girl that seems to enjoy little in her life except her baby sister. So, when one night, a scarecrow swaps her sister for a changeling, Poison knows she has to set out and rescue her sister.
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Chris Wooding
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Scholastic Point, Thomson/Gale, Scholastic
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439981620
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