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A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray
ISBN: 0385730284
ISBN-13: 9780385730280
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
After her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, 16-year-old Gemma leaves her home in India and relocates to a boarding school in England. Once there, she is haunted by mysterious visions, severely alienating her from her fellow students. To further complicate matters, Gemma is being trailed by a stranger who has followed her all the way from India. Could his presence somehow be tied to her visions? This bestselling young-adult thriller is the first in the Gemma Doyle trilogy, followed by REBEL ANGELS and THE SWEET FAR THING.
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"A Gothic touched by modern conceptions of adolescence, shivery with both passion and terror."
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Delacorte Pr
Published date: 2003
Size: 6.25 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Ages: 7 to 9
Pages: 403
Synopses
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
Publisher's Notes
It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?
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