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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2011
It's 1960, and thirteen-year-old Sophie Martineau has just been deposited by her imperious, newly divorced mother at their ancestral home in the Louisiana bayou, once the site of a grand sugar plantation, to spend the summer with her spinster aunt and bedridden grandmother. She soon gets lost in the estate's overgrown maze, meets a Creature that is equal parts Psammead and Brer Rabbit, and is transported back in time one hundred years....Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011 | Intermediate Fiction
It’s 1960, and thirteen-year-old Sophie is spending the summer at her grandmother’s Louisiana bayou home. After meeting a mysterious cre...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
