The Turnaway Girls

✍ Scribed by Chewins, Hayley

• Publisher: Candlewick Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Delphernia Undersea wants to sing. But everyone on Blightsend knows music belongs to the Masters — and girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea.

On the strange, stormy island of Blightsend, twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister of turnaway girls, hidden from sea and sky by a dome of stone and the laws of the island. Outside, the Masters play their music. Inside, the turnaway girls silently make that music into gold. Making shimmer, Mother Nine calls it. But Delphernia can't make shimmer. She would rather sing than stay silent. When a Master who doesn't act like a Master comes to the skydoor, it's a chance for Delphernia to leave the cloister. Outside the stone dome, the sea breathes like a wild beast, the sky watches with stars like eyes, and even the gardens have claws. Outside, secrets fall silent in halls without sound. And outside, Delphernia is caught — between the island's sinister Custodian...
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
All Identifiers : isbn:9781536204445
Single Author : Hayley Chewins
Original Source : New_Files_Train_Pack_2018-130
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Chewins, Hayley
Title Length : 018
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ES Lib Name : NIRC 2018-10
Record ID : 2042
Uncomma Author : Hayley Chewins
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