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Reviewed on October 21, 2011
The Printz Honor winner (for 2010's Revolver) follows with an equally suspenseful story of a friendship gone very wrong. Rebecca is the new girl in the coastal town of Winterfold. Ferelith, the only other girl her age...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
on onOctober 21, 2011 | Booksmack!
The Printz Honor winner (for 2010's Revolver) follows with an equally suspenseful story of a friendship gone very wrong. Rebecca is the new girl in the coastal town of Winterfold. Ferelith, the only other girl her age...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
School Library Journal
Starred Review on August 1, 2011
Gr 9 Up—Three lives intersect in this disquieting but skillfully written tale of the human desire to know what awaits us after death. Beautiful and bitter Rebecca has come to the crumbling seaside village of Winterfold with her police-officer father to escape the consequences of a deadly choice he made. She meets Ferelith, a peculiar local girl who prefers "things that are frightening," and who convinces Rebecca to join h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2011
Rebecca and her widowed father move to the dilapidated cliff-top village of Winterfold for the summer, hoping to escape a scandal. Lonely, resentful Rebecca isn't much comforted by the acquaintance of morbid and manipulative local girl Ferelith, who's even spookier than the gloomy village crumbling into the sea. As Ferelith gradually earns Rebecca's uneasy trust, the two begin an escalating series of dares that leads them to trespass in no...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Rebecca and her father move to the dilapidated cliff-top village of Winterfold. Lonely Rebecca is befriended by morbid and manipulative Ferelith, and the two...Log In or Sign Up to Read More