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Description
When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new... read more
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Cast of Characters/Important People
- Valerie Russell: The protagonist, a young girl who after running away to New York City stumbles upon Magic
- Ruth: Valerie "Val"'s best friend
- Jen: A girl in Val's school who insults Ruth
- Tom: Add a description of this character.
- Lollipop
- Dave
- Luis
- Ravus
Memorable Quotes
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“"I don't make things magical," he said. "I could, perhaps, but not in any quantity or potency. It would be beyond me, beyond almost anyone save a high Lord or Lady Faerie. These things..." His hand swept over the worktable, over the hardened nuggets of chewed gum, the various wrappers and cans, the lipstick-stained butts of cigarettes. "Are already magical. People have made them so." He picked up a silvery gum wrapper." A mirror that never cracks." He picked up a tissue with a blotted lipstick mouth on it. "A kiss that never ends." A cigarette. "The Breath of a man."”
Narrator and Ravus
First Sentence
The tree woman choked on poison, the slow sap of her blood burning.
Table of Contents
Series
This is book 2 in the A Modern Faerie Tale series.
Authors & Contributors
- Holly Black (Author)
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