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A Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray Hardcover | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | December 2003 | $16.95 | 0-385-73028-4 | Ages 12 up Hardcover Library Binding | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | December 2003 | $18.99 | 0-385-90161-5 | Ages 12 up

Raised in India, 16-year-old Gemma's life is turned upside down when a vision of her mother committing suicide comes true. She is sent to a boarding school in England where she has to blackmail her way into being accepted by the other girls. But her visions don't stop and she finds that Kartik, a mysterious young man from India, has followed her to England. Kartik encourages her to fight off the visions, but they continue until one night she is led by a child-spirit to a diary that reveals the existence of a mystical Order. Gemma decides to follow the diarist's lead and travel into the Realms, a place of both joy and danger. What will she find there and how will it affect her life?

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Prepared by Susan Geye, Library Media Specialist, Crowley Ninth Grade Campus, Crowley, TX

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