See 14 Book Recommendations like The Lost Conspiracy. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover. the power of a well witch in this striking fantasy from award-winning author Frances Hardinge. When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world and of herself in a desperate attempt to save them both. She spent her childhood in Kent, England, in a huge, isolated old house in a small, strange.
But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded. Frances Hardinge is the celebrated author of Fly By night, Well Witched, and The Lost Conspiracy.
On Gullstruck Island the volcanoes quarrel, beetles sing danger and occasionally a Lost. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. Frances Hardinge, the Costa Award winning author The Lie Tree. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits.Īrilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. School Library Journal Best Books, 2009.Īwards note A Junior Library Guild selection 307788 Cataloging source DLC Hardinge, Frances Dewey number Index no index present Intended audience Grades 5 up LC call number PZ7.On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers.
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