Beyond Dare’s quest to uncover the truth about the monsters, giving the reader ample pages of action, mystery, magic, and creepy moments, this book also tackles deeper themes including grief, societal inequalities, and corruption. “She was happy to be a thornbush among the lilies for even the sharpest thorns serve a purpose.”Īfter tragedy strikes and Dare is sent away from her isolated island home to live with a distant relative in a gritty city on the mainland, Dare discovers the stories she’s been told all her life about monsters may not be precisely true. Dare is wise and inquisitive and utterly fearless. But Dare is so much more than what she, and everyone else thinks she is. She’s been told that her whole life and she believes it.
BETWEEN MONSTERS AND MARVELS is most definitely a book kid-Barb would have not been able to put down.ĭare Coates is an awful girl. But they're not the only ones searching for the ring, and with the growing threat of camp closing forever, they're almost out of time Cataloging source TEFOD Key, Janet Dewey number Index no index present LC call number PZ7.1.When I read MG books, I always think back to my own days as a kid, often reading under the covers past bedtime with a flashlight. When Maren connects the clues to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, she and her new friends are off searching through lighting booths, orchestra pits and costume storages, discovering the trail and dodging camp counselors. But when a prank goes wrong, Maren gets drawn into the hunt for a diamond ring that, legend has it, is linked to the camp's namesake, Charlotte "Charlie" Goodman, a promising director in Blacklist Era Hollywood. Theater camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people like her older sister, Hadley-the last person Maren wants to think about-and her cinema-obsessed, nonbinary bunkmate, Theo. Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theater camp isn't for her.
Language eng Summary Better Nate Than Ever meets The Parker Inheritance in this heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting others as they are.
Label Twelfth Title Twelfth Statement of responsibility Janet Key Creator
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