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Goblin Market by Zahler, Diane
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In this story inspired by Polish folklore two sisters face a goblin prince in the dark forest -- One sister must save the other from a goblin prince in this rich spooky and delightfully dark fantasy! TERRIFICALLY TIMELESS. . . SPLENDID. --Shelf Awareness Lizzie and Minka are sisters but they re nothing alike: Minka is outgoing and cheerful while Lizzie is shy and sensitive. Nothing much ever happens in their sleepy village--there are fields to tend clothes to mend and weekly trips to the market predictable as the turning of the seasons. Lizzie likes it that way. It s safe. It s comfortable. She hopes nothing will ever change. But one day Minka meets a boy. A boy who gives her a plum to eat. He is charming. He is handsome. He tells her that she s special. He tells her no one understands her like he does--not her parents not her friends not even Lizzie. He tells her she should come away with him into the darkness into the forest. . . . Minka has been bewitched and ensnared by a zdusze--a goblin. His plum was poison his words are poison and strange things begin to happen. Trees bleed winds howl a terrible sickness descends on Minka and deep in the woods in a place beyond sunshine beyond reality a wedding table has been laid. . . . To save her sister Lizzie will have to find courage she never knew she had--courage to confront the impossible--and enter into a world of dreams danger and death. Rich world-building inspired by both Polish folklore and the poetry of Christina Rossetti combines with a tender sister story in this thrilling novel from Diane Zahler. Lush. . . Dreamy. . . Breath-quickening. --The Horn Book Resonates with emotion. --BCCB Believably wrought. --Publishers Weekly Will entice readers looking for some chills. --Kirkus Reviews
Goblin Market by Zahler, Diane
In this story inspired by Polish folklore two sisters face a goblin prince in the dark forest -- One sister must save the other from a goblin prince in this rich spooky and delightfully dark fantasy! TERRIFICALLY TIMELESS. . . SPLENDID. --Shelf Awareness Lizzie and Minka are sisters but they re nothing alike: Minka is outgoing and cheerful while Lizzie is shy and sensitive. Nothing much ever happens in their sleepy village--there are fields to tend clothes to mend and weekly trips to the market predictable as the turning of the seasons. Lizzie likes it that way. It s safe. It s comfortable. She hopes nothing will ever change. But one day Minka meets a boy. A boy who gives her a plum to eat. He is charming. He is handsome. He tells her that she s special. He tells her no one understands her like he does--not her parents not her friends not even Lizzie. He tells her she should come away with him into the darkness into the forest. . . . Minka has been bewitched and ensnared by a zdusze--a goblin. His plum was poison his words are poison and strange things begin to happen. Trees bleed winds howl a terrible sickness descends on Minka and deep in the woods in a place beyond sunshine beyond reality a wedding table has been laid. . . . To save her sister Lizzie will have to find courage she never knew she had--courage to confront the impossible--and enter into a world of dreams danger and death. Rich world-building inspired by both Polish folklore and the poetry of Christina Rossetti combines with a tender sister story in this thrilling novel from Diane Zahler. Lush. . . Dreamy. . . Breath-quickening. --The Horn Book Resonates with emotion. --BCCB Believably wrought. --Publishers Weekly Will entice readers looking for some chills. --Kirkus Reviews
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