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Gr 8 Up—A cozy fantasy that will appeal to fans of Ava Reid's A Study in Drowning and Margaret Owen's Little Thieves. When the taxidermied chimera at the front door of the shop intones, "Beware the girl in the oxblood cloak," Willow Stokes is so surprised it spoke at all that she doesn't connect the words to her first and only customer of the day. It's difficult to run a successful curiosity shop when her recently deceased father was a notorious charlatan, and everyone knows the store doesn'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More