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Gr 7 Up—Faith Sunderly is intensely curious about her famous father's scientific research. When he is suddenly found dead, she is convinc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Everything in this audacious novel is on the cusp or in limbo, setting up delicious tensions and thematic riches. The time is nineteenth-century England just after Darwin's theory of evolution has thrown the scientific world into turmoil; the setting is the fictional island of Vane, between land and sea; the main character is a fourteen-year-old girl caught between society's expectations and her fierce desire to be a scientist. Faith Sunderly regards her intellectual curiosity as an "addiction"; "There was a hunger in her, and girls were not suppo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Everything in this audacious novel is on the cusp or in limbo, setting up delicious tensions and thematic riches. The time is nine...Log In or Sign Up to Read More