A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Reviewed by Julisia
Reviewed by Julisia
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"In 1895 after her mother’s mysterious death in India, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off to an English boarding school whose mission is to prepare girls for marriage to wealthy men. At first, she is picked on by a group of catty girls, but Gemma possesses magical powers that enable her to turn the tables on them. Soon, a select group of four begins to leave school in the middle of the night for a cave off-campus where the girls enter into another dimension and where their most fervent wishes are granted. Tragedy results from their dalliance into forbidden territory and lives are changed forever." (Jean B. Bellavance for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards, 2005-2006)
SUBJECTS:
Magic -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Boarding schools -- Fiction.
Schools -- Fiction.
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Featured music: "Scarborough Fayre" by Mediaeval Baebes INFO HERE!
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