Marina

Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting gothic mystery, which has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller.
"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."
Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave.
When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten postwar Barcelona-a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons--and reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 07/22/2014
ISBN: 9780316044714
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d
Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended

Review Citations: Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2015 - Superior,Well Above Average
Booklist 05/01/2014 pg. 54
School Library Journal 05/01/2014 pg. 138
Publishers Weekly 05/12/2014
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2014
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2014 pg. 607
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2014 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2014 pg. 124
PW Children's Starred Reviews 12/01/2014 pg. 106

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 179331 / Marina
Reading Level: 6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11