The Sisters of Straygarden Place

A riveting middle-grade fantasy about sibling bonds, enchanted houses, and encroaching wildness, lyrically told in eerily beautiful...
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Author: Hayley Chewins
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Language: English
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The Sisters of Straygarden Place by Chewins, Hayley

The Sisters of Straygarden Place

€27,73

The Sisters of Straygarden Place

€27,73
Author: Hayley Chewins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A riveting middle-grade fantasy about sibling bonds, enchanted houses, and encroaching wildness, lyrically told in eerily beautiful prose

The grass grew taller than the house itself, surrounding it on all sides. It stuffed the keyholes and scraped against the roof. It shook the walls and made paintings shiver.

Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and grown up and played a guessing game: Think of an animal, think of a place. Think of a person, think of a face. Until one day, when the eldest, fourteen-year-old Winnow, does the unthinkable and goes outside into the grass, and everything twelve-year-old Mayhap thought she knew about her home, her family, and even herself starts to unravel. With luscious, vivid prose, poet and author Hayley Chewins transports readers to a house where beloved little dogs crawl into their owners' minds to sleep, sick girls turn silver, and anything can be stolen--even laughter and silence.

Author: Hayley Chewins
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781536212273
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 510749 / Sisters of Straygarden Place


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2020
Foreword 06/26/2020
Publishers Weekly 07/27/2020
School Library Journal 08/01/2020 pg. 71
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2020
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2020 pg. 96
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2020 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Hayley Chewins is a poet and the author of The Turnaway Girls, in which she "deftly reveals a tapestry of magic, power, and rebellion thread by ethereal thread," said Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, in a house full of books, and now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, with her husband and her poodle.

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