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The Darkling
By Butler, Charles H.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68981-796-0
- Publisher
- New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1998.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1998
Gr 6-10 The Darkling is what 15-year-old Petra McCoy has always called the shadow cast on her bedroom ceiling by an odd-shaped tree branch. Life has not been kind to Petra-her mother died two years earlier and her kind but ineffectual father is unable to hold a steady job. Things go from bad to worse when her paper route takes her to Century Hall, the home of 102-year-old Edmund Century. He sees a resemblance in Petra to his long-dead fianc e, Eurydice Tremain, and starts sending her mysterious presents, bu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
