Splintered : a novel
Call Number
- FANTASY HOWA TEEN (CEN)
Publication Information
New York : Amulet Books, 2014.
Physical Description
371 pages ; 22 cm.
Series
Summary
Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers--precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now. When her mother's mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice's tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice's mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.
Notes
"Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS"--Title page verso.
Subjects
- Mental illness > Juvenile fiction.
- Psychiatric hospital patients > Juvenile fiction.
- Imaginary places > Juvenile fiction.
- Children of mentally ill mothers > Juvenile fiction.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Juvenile fiction.
- Characters and characteristics in literature > Juvenile fiction.
- Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in Wonderland > Characters > Juvenile fiction.
- Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, 1852-1934 > Family > Juvenile fiction.