![]() ![]() But this is not the main reason her grandmother is treated with suspicion and contempt by most people in town. While her homeland is shattered by a violent revolution, Emma-like a witch's apprentice-comes to learn the ways of her new grandmother, who can tell fortunes from coffee dregs, cause and heal pain at will, and shares her home with the ghost of her husband. When her dissident parents die in a car accident, she’s taken to an orphanage, only to be adopted soon after by a grandmother she has never met. Thirteen-year-old Emma grows up under an Eastern European dictatorship where oppression seems eternal. Rebecca Makkai, New York Times Book Reviewįrom an award-winning and internationally acclaimed European writer: A chilling and suspenseful novel set in the wake of a violent revolution about a young girl rescued from an orphanage by an otherworldly grandmother she’s never met " telling is not just magic, but enchantment." Téa Obreht, bestselling author of Inland and The Tiger's Wife ![]() Dragomán puts us in the middle of our most wondrous and terrifying childhood fairytales, somehow unhazing their dreaminess and replicating their electrifying uncertainty all at once.” “Anything can happen in The Bone Fire-and everything does. ICLE (International Center for Leadership in Education)Ĭustomer Service & Technical Support Portal Into Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, 8-12 ![]() Science & Engineering Leveled Readers, K-5 ![]()
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