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Author Sambury, Liselle.

Title Delicious monsters / Liselle Sambury.

Imprint New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2023]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fast Add/Load  F SAMBURY    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 504 p. ; 24 cm.
Note "Ages 14 up"--Dust jacket.
"Content warnings: childhood sexual abuse (off page, some details discussed), childhood physical abuse (corporal punishment, off page, described), childhood physical abuse (confinement punishment), childhood neglect, gaslighting, grooming, suicide (off page, mention), killing of a goat (off page, described), discussions of fatphobia, body horror/gore , violence, death"--Author note.
Indexed In: School Library Journal starred, March 2023
Kirkus Starred, December 2022
Booklist, January 2023
Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), February 2023
Publishers Weekly Annex, January 2023
Summary "Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around"--Provided by publisher.
Audience Young Adult Follett School Solutions.
HL640 Lexile.
Subject Dwellings -- Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship -- Fiction.
Dead -- Fiction.
Spirit possession -- Fiction.
Child sexual abuse -- Fiction.
Blacks -- Canada -- Fiction.
Supernatural -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Paranormal fiction.
ISBN 9781665903493

 
    
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