middle-grade

None of it mattered, because there was music.

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.

So you__e a reader,_ My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.

That was the moment when Alice knew for sure that she and Charlie Erdling would be friends for the rest of their lives.

As a rule, she didn__ like boys very much, but she had to admit, Charlie was actually pretty nice.

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless

Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.

After an hour the score was: Quancita_34 Radiz_51 Sally__roglegs Perla_9 a

It was going to be our job to annoy someone?_ __ know__t__ a dream come true!

What are you doing?_ I asked Loretta. __tabbing a cushion,_ she told me.

Are you . . . lost?_ __ot really,_ she told him. __e just don__ know where we__e going.

Are you okay?_ __eah._ __ood,_ she said, __ecause if you fall off a skyscraper, I__l be so mad at you.

Keep moving!_ __ea__ arguing with the floor.

Perrotte frowned. ____ like to turn a plowshare into a sword ,_ she said. ____ cut our way out of those thorns, and then use it to run my enemies through__ She bit off her next words and swallowed them. Sand stared at her, aghast. She met his eyes, defiant. __hat? You don__ like bloodthirstiness?_ she asked. __ardon? No. I__ horrified that you would dull a sword on that thorn brake. I could make you some pretty good hedge shears.

The shrine I prayed at not to go to university,_ Sand said.__ guess your prayer was answered,_ Perrotte said.Sand strongly considered throwing something at her__ut there was nothing to hand that wasn__ sacred.

Saint Melor__ father was Saint Meliau.___as everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?___veryone who didn__ murder anyone, maybe,_ Perrotte said.

I__ alive,_ he groaned. __ut I__ not doing a very good job of it.