Book
Splinters of scarlet
Call Number
- FANTASY MURP TEEN (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
Physical Description
391 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 7-9. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Summary
For Marit Olsen, magic is all about strategy. It flows freely through her blood, but every use leaves behind a deadly, ice-like build-up within her veins called the Firn; a Firn build-up killed her sister. Eve, a fellow orphan whom Marit views like a little sister, is adopted by the wealthy Helene Vestergaard. Marit's father died while working in the Vestergaards' jewel mines, and she decides to use magic to secure a job as a seamstress in the household. Soon she finds herself in the middle of a treacherous deception that goes all the way up to the king of Denmark. Magic may be the only thing that can save her-- if it doesn't kill her first.
Subjects
- Magic > Juvenile fiction.
- Household employees > Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans > Juvenile fiction.
- Magic > Fiction.
- Household employees > Fiction.
- Love > Fiction.
- Orphans > Fiction.
- Copenhagen (Denmark) > History > Juvenile fiction.
- Denmark > History > Christian IX, 1863-1906 > Juvenile fiction.
- Copenhagen (Denmark) > History > Fiction.
- Denmark > History > Christian IX, 1863-1906 > Fiction.