All Our Pretty Songs
Sarah McCarryThis is a story about love, but not the kind of love you think. You'll see...
In the lush and magical Pacific Northwest live two best friends who grew up like sisters: charismatic, mercurial, and beautiful Aurora, and the devoted, watchful narrator. Each of them is incomplete without the other. But their unbreakable bond is challenged when a mysterious and gifted musician named Jack comes between them.
His music is like nothing I have ever heard. It is like the ocean surging, the wind that blows across the open water, the far call of gulls.
Suddenly, each girl must decide what matters most: friendship, or love. What both girls don't know is that the stakes are even higher than either of them could have imagined. They're not the only ones who have noticed Jack's gift; his music has awakened an ancient evil--and a world both above and below which may not be mythical at all. We have paved over the ancient world but that does not mean we have erased it.
The real and the mystical; the romantic and the heartbreaking all begin to swirl together in All Our Pretty Songs, Sarah McCarry's brilliant debut, carrying the two on journey that is both enthralling and terrifying.
And it's up to the narrator to protect the people she loves--if she can.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 07/30/2013
ISBN: 9781250027085
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.80d
Review Citations: Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2013
Booklist 09/01/2013 pg. 103
Voice of Youth Advocates 10/01/2013 pg. 84 - Recommended - Readable
School Library Journal 10/01/2013 pg. 126
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2014 pg. 119 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 164625 / All Our Pretty Songs
Reading Level: 4.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 9