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Crown of Acorns

by Catherine Fisher · 2010

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A teenage girl with a past arrives in a city: new name, new identity, new foster family. She is nursing a secret from her early childhood, a secret that produces new terrors for her the moment she fears her identity has been spotted.

Genre
historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thisBritish mysteryBritish mysteryMore like thisLess of thismysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thismythologymythologyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
artartMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2010s2010sMore like thisLess of thisBathBathMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 281 pages

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