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By The Chapter & Verse Team
Simply put, Extraordinary is a fantastical journey. Following her earlier offering in Impossible, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and US National Book Award finalist Nancy Werlin weaves another tale of magical realism with Extraordinary.
This fairy tale for modern young women, is a romance, a meditation on the complexities of female friendships, the turmoil involving the collection of unpaid debts and long-ago bargains.
In Extraordinary, Phoebe finds herself drawn to Mallory, the strange and secretive new kid in school, and the two girls become as close as sisters…until Mallory’s magnetic older brother, Ryland, shows up during their junior year. Ryland has an instant, exciting, and dangerous hold on Phoebe – causing her to question her feelings about her best friend and about herself.
She soon discovers Ryland and Mallory are visitors from the faerie realm who have come to collect on a generations-old debt. The faerie queen promised Phoebe’s ancestor five extraordinary sons in exchange for one ordinary female heir. But in hundreds of years, there hasn’t been a single ordinary girl in the family. Is Phoebe the special one?
Extraordinary adds a magical twist to some of the issues that most affect young women today, including toxic friendships, intimidating strangers, and troubled parents. Phoebe’s struggles to find her sense of self – will ring true with young readers, making this a must-read for anyone looking to find out what is extraordinary about themselves.
Nancy Werlin was a National Book Award finalist for Rules of Survival and winner of the Edgar Award for The Killer’s Cousin. Her other titles include Locked Inside, Black Mirror, Double Helix, and Impossible. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Yale. She lives in Melrose, Massachusetts, US.
Publication: September 7, 2010 | Dial Books for Young Readers | ISBN: 978-0-8037-3372-5
Hardcover | 384 pages | Young Adult / Fiction | Ages 12 up | Grades 7 Up |
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