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Recent books posted on NetGalley that I'm considering reading & reviewing. Thoughts?
Wildthorn
Jane Eagland
The Year Money Grew on Trees
Aaron Hawkins
Wildthorn
Jane Eagland
Dark secrets and deep betrayals haunt this extraordinary debut young adult romance set in a Victorian insane asylum.
They strip her naked, of everything-undo her whalebone corset, hook by hook. Locked away in Wildthorn Hall—a madhouse—they take her identity. She is now called Lucy Childs. She has no one; she has nothing. But, she is still seventeen-still Louisa Cosgrove, isn't she? Who has done this unthinkable deed? Louisa must free herself, in more ways than one, and muster up the courage to be her true self, all the while solving her own twisted mystery and falling into an unconventional love . . .
Originally published in the UK, this well-paced, provocative romance pushes on boundaries-both literal and figurative-and, do beware: it will bind you, too.
The Year Money Grew on Trees
Aaron Hawkins
An unusual and captivating middle-grade novel about a quirky posse of cousins who scramble to make money off an old apple orchard.
With frostbitten fingers, sleepless nights and sore muscles, 14-year-old Jackson Jones and his posse of cousins discover the lost art of winging it when they take over an orchard of 300 wild apple trees. They know nothing about pruning or irrigation or pest control, but figure it out they must—if they are to avoid losing $8,000 (because of an unfair contract).
With spot illustrations for mechanical-loving readers—the gears of a tractor, a plow with disks—and with mathematical calculations of the great mount of money to be earned, this novel has the sort of can-do spirit and sense of earned independence not often found in today's fiction.
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IT WILL BE AWESOME EVEN IF IT SUCKS
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