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The Turning: What Curiosity Kills

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The Turning: What Curiosity Kills

An acclaimed author scratches back with this thrilling YA debut

"What Curiosity Kills...cracks open the world of Upper East Side prep-schoolers and literally turns it wild, bringing together the best parts of Gossip Girl, Twilight, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer... funny, fierce, and full of surprises."

-Hannah Tinti, ALA Alex Award-winning auth or of The Good Thief

Nobody can know your secret.

Nobody can know your power.

But if nobody knows who you are to begin with...what's stopping you?

I whisper, "What's so special about me all of a sudden?"

Nick says, "The Turning."

Mary feels different, but can't explain why. The fainting, the strange cravings...and worse, the things she's noticed about her body.

Mary doesn't know where to turn. If she tells her parents or her sister, she'll risk losing everything. She has no other family, no way of knowing if what she's going through is normal. Everyone she's ever known and loved could reject her...

Reviewer: ReaderGirl

Review: Jun 23, 2010

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Genre(s): YA / Teen

Mary lives with her parents, and her sister Octavia, both of them being adopted. One day she lets a stray cat in through her bathroom window. It goes nuts and everywhere the cat's tail touched her leg, bright orange fur sprouted. The next day Mary tries to hide the fur with knee high socks, but is distracted by a wonderful earthy smell. She becomes obsessive finding the source of the smell, tracking it to an

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