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399 pp.
| Putnam |
November, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-17114-7$17.99
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4-6
At a circus along the city outskirts, adopted twins Charlotte and Sonja love playing music but can't control the strange events that occur whenever they do. The menacing Kats Von Stralen schemes to steal the Talents belonging to artistic children like the twins. What the book lacks in coherent world-building or sound plotting, Malouf makes up for with her rich imagination and agreeably peculiar pencil illustrations.