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The sisters of Straygarden Place, Hayley Chewins

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The sisters of Straygarden Place

Hayley Chewins

The grass grew taller than the house itself, surrounding it on all sides. It stuffed the keyholes and scraped against the roof. It shook the walls and made paintings shiver. Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. zWait for us,y the note read. zSleep darkly.y Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavoninefeeding them, clothing them, even keeping them companywhile the girls have waited and grown up and played a guessing game: Think of an animal, think of a place. Think of a person, think of a face. Until one day, when the eldest, fourteen-year-old Winnow, does the unthinkable and goes outside into the grass, and everything twelve-year-old Mayhap thought she knew about her home, her family, and even herself starts to unravel. With luscious, vivid prose, poet and author Hayley Chewins transports readers to a house where beloved little dogs crawl into their owners minds to sleep, sick girls turn silver, and anything can be stoleneven laughter and silence

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