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A 2013 Audie Award Finalist for Children's Titles for Ages 8-12

One of the 2012 Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books for Children

Selected for the Autumn 2012 Indie Next List for Children (Ages 9-12)

A 2012 Booklist Editors’ Choice Selection for Youth

Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award

Newbery Medal-winning author Laura Amy Schlitz has garnered starred reviews and popular acclaim for her Victorian gothic thriller Splendors and Glooms. When Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, pleads that mas-ter puppeteer Gaspare Grisini perform at her birthday party, she unwittingly places herself in the utmost peril. After Clara disappears the night of the show, Grisini's innocent assistants attempt to locate the missing birthday girl- but dark and terrifying forces await.

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“Schlitz skillfully manages multiple narratives as the story makes its complex way forward, creating scenes of warmth and humor along with those of drama and horror…Filled with heart-pounding and heart-rending moments, this delicious, glorious novel is the work of a master of children’s literature.” —New York Times Book Review

“Few books can be called both delightful and eerie - this novel is one. Utterly transporting.” —Rebecca Stead, Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me

“The book builds slowly and ends stunningly.” —Chicago Tribune

“A superb gothic novel…Vivid and strange, this latest work by Ms. Schlitz—a Newbery Medal-winner—is, like a marionette show that the orphans see one night, a spectacle sharp-edged, exquisite, and eerily alive.” —Wall Street Journal

“Newbery Medalist Schlitz delivers many pleasures—fully dimensional children, period details so ripe one can nearly smell them, and droll humor that leavens a few scenes of true horror. A highly original tale about children caught in a harrowing world of magic and misdeeds.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A brooding Dickensian novel with a touch of fantasy and a glimmer of hope…Vividly portrayed and complex, the characters are well defined individuals whose separate strands of story are colorful and compelling. Schlitz weaves them into an intricate tapestry that is as mysterious and timeless as a fairytale.” —Booklist (starred review)

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Author Bio: Laura Amy Schlitz

Laura Amy Schlitz is the author of four previous middle-grade novels, including the Newbery Honor Book Splendors and Glooms and The Hired Girl, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. She was awarded a Newbery Medal for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village.

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Format:	Retail CD	Format:	MP3 CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category:	Fiction/Action & Adventure
Publisher:	Recorded Books, Inc.	Publisher:	Recorded Books, Inc.
CDs:	10	CDs:	1
Runtime:	12.00
ISBN:	9781664506848	ISBN:	9781664780378
Audience:	Children (8–12)
Language:	English

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