AGES 12 AND UP YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Odd & True ■ ■ BY C AT W I N T E R S
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Trudchen grew up hearing Odette’s stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician’s
■■ Critically acclaimed author:
curse. But now that Tru’s older, she’s starting to
Winters’s books have garnered starred reviews and acclaim from
wonder if her older sister’s tales were just com-
both teachers and librarians
forting lies, especially because there’s nothing fantastic about her own life – permanently dis
■■ Compelling plot: Readers will be
abled and in constant pain from childhood polio.
eager to find out what is real and
In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od
what is fantasy
reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the
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monsters on their way to attack her. But it’s Od
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who seems haunted by something. And when
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the sisters’ search for their mother leads them
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to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish
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beast that’s wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic
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states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister – despite their dark pasts and
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ordinary appearances – might, indeed, have magic after all.
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The Steep and Thorny Way ■ ■ BY C AT W I N T E R S
S E LLING POINTS ■■ Classical roots: Winters’s fresh
Now in paperback!
A thrilling reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, The Steep and Thorny Way tells the
retelling of Shakespeare’s
story of a murder most foul and the mighty
Hamlet ties to school English
power of love and acceptance in a state gone
literature curricula
terribly rotten. 1920s Oregon is not a welcoming
■■ Photographs throughout: Period photography adds an eerie mood and sense of place ■■ Biracial and gay characters: The struggle these protagonists face will resonate with teens
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place for Hanalee Denney, the daughter of a white woman and an African American man. She has almost no rights by law, and the Ku Klux Klan breeds fear and hatred in even Hanalee’s oldest friendships. Plus, her father, Hank, died a year ago, hit by a drunk-driving teenager. Now the killer is out of jail and back in town, and he’s claiming that Hanalee’s father’s death wasn’t an accident at all. Instead, he says that Hank
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was poisoned by the doctor who looked after
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him – who just so happens to be Hanalee’s new
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stepfather.
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In order to get the answers she needs, Hanalee will have to ask a ‘haint’ wandering the roads at night – her father himself.
Cat Winters is the author of the critically acclaimed young adult novels The Steep and Thorny Way, The Cure for Dreaming, and In the Shadow of Blackbirds, the latter of which collected three starred reviews and was a William C. Morris Award YA Debut Award finalist. Visit the author at catwinters.com.
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