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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2009
Gr 9-Up It's hard to be the only normal one in a family in which everyone has a Talent that allows them to do such things as disappear, control the weather, read the future, or turn people to stone. Tamsin is bitter that she does not have a magical gift and dreams of the day she can move far away. So when a mysterious Scottish stranger, Alistair, shows up at her family's bookstore and assumes that the 17-year-old is her very Talented sister, Row...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
Everyone else in Tamsin's family of witches has some sort of Talent. Tam has always thought she had no suc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on December 1, 2009
As unusual as Tamsin’s situation is, it taps into an experience teens know only too well—that of feeling like an outsider. Readers with siblings will emphatically relate to Tamsin’s envy of her “perfect” older sister. As Ta...Log In or Sign Up to Read More