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Starlings / Amanda Linsmeier.
When seventeen-year-old Kit visits her father's hometown for the first time following his death, she not only discovers that her family is strangely revered among the locals, but that she also has an important role in the town's future.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593572337 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 327 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | 014+. Decoding demand: 96 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 90 (very high) Structure demand: 89 (very high). HL630L. |
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| Genre: | Horror fiction. Young adult fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | YA Linsm | 31681010334910 | YADULT | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
After the sudden death of her father, Kit arrives in Rosemont to visit the grandmother she never knew she had?â?the matriarch of the revered Starling family?â?and soon discovers this picture-perfect town is hiding a dark and ancient secret. Simultaneous eBook. - Random House, Inc.
A dark YA fantasy debut perfect for fans of House of Hollow and Small Favors. In the wake of her father's death, a teen girl discovers a side of her family she didn't know existed, and is pulled into a darkâand ancientâbargain she is next in line to fulfill.
Kitâs father always told her he had no family, but his sudden death revealed the truth. Now Kit has a grandmother she never knew she hadâAgatha Starlingâand an invitation to visit her fatherâs hometown, Rosemont.Â
And Rosemont is picture perfect: the famed eternal roses bloom all year, downtown is straight out of the 1950s . . . thereâs even a cute guy to show Kit around.
The longer Kitâs there, though, the stranger it all feels. The Starling family is revered, but thereâs something off about how the Starling women seem to be at the center of the all the townâs important history. And as welcoming as the locals are, Kit canât shake the feeling that they're hiding something from her.
Agatha is so happy to finally meet her only granddaughter, and the town is truly charming, but Kit canât help wondering, if everything is so great in Rosemont, why did her father leave? And why does it seem like he never wanted her to find it?
