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Cuckoo Song

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By Frances Hardinge
Publisher Amulet Books
Cuckoo Song
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Read this thoughtprovoking, critically acclaimed novel from Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Book of the Year and Costa Childrens Book Awards for The Lie Tree. When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry, her sister seems scared of her, and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. In a quest to find the truth she must travel into the terrifying underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect who has dark designs on her familybefore its too late . . . Set in England after World War I, this is a brilliantly creepy but ultimately loving story of the relationship between two sisters who have to band together against a world where nothing is as it seems.

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113761 words113,761 words
416 pages416 pages
Lexile 860LLexile 860L
Grade 6 to H+Grade 6 to H+
Age 11-18Age 11-18
Published 2015Published 2015

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Book ISBN:

1419714805

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