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Piece of Mind

Emily the Strange Dark Times

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Piece of Mind

Emily's Strange To-Do List:

1. Lose (and regain) mind

2. Reprogram golem

3. Locate secret book vault

4. Commune with Dead Dark Aunts

5. Rescue Cousin Jakey

6. Redecorate souvenir kiosk

7. Thwart Thought Thief

8. Endure hero worship

9. Grant ancestral enemy's deepest wish

10. Save cat-napped kitty

11. Summon black rock

12. Defeat Shady Uncles

13. Guard family legacy & claim inheritance!

Reviewer: ReaderGirl

Review: Nov 29, 2011

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Genre(s): YA / Teen, Paranormal / Supernatural, Gothic

Emily the Strange is finishing up her school work before summer break. But when she receives a letter stating she'll be able to get the wonderful Black Rock that she uses in almost everything, she knows that she must go to Seaside Town to get it. When Emily arrives with her golem Raven, and her black cats, she discovers that her arch-enemy Attikol is there. Can she help an old friend in trouble when he doesn'

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Emily the Strange Dark Times

Emily's uniquely strange homeschool syllabus includes:

1. Time Travel 101

2. Advanced Spy Photography

3. Bonnet Basics

4. Great Aunts Through the Ages

5. Intro to Germ Theory

6. Care and Feeding of 'Squito Fish

7. Fundamentals of Black Rock

8. Spiderweb Embroidery

9. Historical & Contemporary Felines

10. Pop Quizzes

11. Foodstuffs of the 1780s

12. Thwarting Ancestral Enemies

13. Techniques in Parallel

Reviewer: ReaderGirl

Review: Apr 6, 2011

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Genre(s): YA / Teen, YA (ages 14+)

Emily is quite strange. She must fake a student id to get parts from the hardware store for one of her many inventions. Then she is trying to find liquid black rock to power many of her invention, including her time machine called T.O.M.\. While making her own homeschooling class syllabus, Emily's mother makes her include a class on her past relatives. She discovers something fishy about the death of her grea

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