White Cat

By Black, Holly

Publishers Summary:
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers -- people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail -- he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.Ever since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. Could she still be alive? To find that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.Holly Black has created a gripping tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love -- or death -- and your dreams might be more real than your memories.

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ISBN
978-1-41696-396-7
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry


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Library Journal

Reviewed on October 21, 2010

Cassel Sharpe is a lot of things-a prep student, a con artist, a bookie, and possibly a murderer-but he knows that he is not a curse worker. In a world similar to our own, curse workers represent the small percentage of the population that can work magic with the touch of a hand: controlling emotions, telling fortunes, making p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Guide

Reviewed on January 1, 2010

Cassel Sharpe's family of curse workers (people whose touch can control others) treat him as an outsider. Cassel c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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