In this smart, compulsively readable novel, master storyteller Marie Rutkoski has crafted an utterly original world, characters you won't soon forget, and a tale full of intrigue and suspense. What she finds out will change her world forever. Darcy decides to infiltrate the Shadow Society and uncover the Shades' latest terrorist plot. When Conn betrays Darcy, she realizes that she can't rely on anything - not herself, not the laws of nature, and certainly not him. It doesn't line up with the way he first looked at her. Memories begin to haunt Darcy when a new boy arrives at her high school, and he makes her feel both desire and desired in a way she hadn't thought possible. She has never really belonged anywhere - but she couldn't have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn't happen and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population. The Cabinet of Wonders is a 2009 Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year.Darcy Jones doesn't remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it. This startling debut novel, about the risks we take to protect those we love, brims with magic, political intrigue, and heroism. Good news, bookworms In a YA world littered with series and cliffhangers, THE SHADOW SOCIETY is that rare species in the wild known as a stand-alone novel. 'The Shadow Society' was my first experience with reading a novel by Marie Rutkoski. Darcy has no memory of her life before she was abandoned outside a Chicago fire station at age five. Joining forces with Neel, whose fingers extend into invisible ghosts that pick locks and pockets, Petra finds that many people in the castle are not what they seem, and that her father s clock has powers capable of destroying their world. Farrar Straus Giroux/Macmillan, 2012.416p. But why? Petra doesn t know, but she knows this: she will go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and steal her father s eyes back. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. Petra s life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home blind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world s finest astronomical clock. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere.
She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice.
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