Swoon (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters edit see section history

• Candice "Dice" Reagan Moskow: The protagonist of the story; from New York but moved to Swoon because her parents, after learning she has a rare form of epilepsy (really, she's just psychic)
• Sinclair "Sin" Youngblood Powers: A ghost from the eighteenth century out for revenge on Swoon for his unjust hanging more than two hundred years ago
• Penelope "Pen" Leonard: Dice's cousin, a good girl at heart turned bad by Sin
• Kristin "Marsh" Marshall: One of Pen's friends with a terrible father
• Caroline "Wick" Chadwick: One of Pen's blonde cheerleader friends
• Burr Addams: A boy Pen has a huge crush on
• Lesley Reagan: Dice's mom, often called Momster
• Lainie Leonard: Dice's aunt and Pen's mom; loves to cook
• Ruby: Dice's friend from New York
• RubyCat: A cat Dice finds and names after her old friend
• Crane: A rich British boy who becomes Marsh's boyfriend
• Tía Anaisa: Ruby's psychic aunt
• Hannah: Sin's girlfriend in 1769 whose murder he was blamed for
• Matilda "Tillie" Marshall: Hannah's friend
• Ms. Brinker: The local librarian

Quotes edit see section history

• “Only she didn't watch it very well---the poor, conflicted woman, torn between Betty Crocker and Jenny Craig.”

  Candice

• “Its funny, right, you think something's so good, and then you find out, unh-uh, not so good, and then it turns out you were right in the first place. And you wish you would have savored it more.”

  Ruby

• “The best listeners listen between the lines.”

  Candice

• “I always get the fuzzy end of a lollipop.Said by Ruby and later commented upon by Dice.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Swoon, Connecticut
• New York City

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Swear.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nina Malkin (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sex and drugs mentioned throughout the book

Subjects edit see section history

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