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Summers at Castle Auburn

Sharon Shinn

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SOLVED: Children's/YA

SOLVED. YA Fantasy book (in beginning). Female lead can steal life, found out when she was little after killing a crazy lil boy, has only mom & very sick twin. Crazy dad of boy comes back years later... Spoilers.
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SOLVED. Children's Picture Book about an old man living in the wetlands who eats an animal's tail, so the animal tries to get it back. Read around 1996-1999. Spoilers!
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Sep 02, 2008 Wealhtheow rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, ya

Corie is the illegitimate half-sister of the heir-to-the-throne's fiance, and as such she spends every summer at Castle Auburn. The rest of the year, she trains as an herbalist with her demanding grandmother. The story follows Corie and her sister, Elisandra, as they grow up and prepare to take the places the world has assigned them. I was impressed with the insight into the girls' minds--they really came alive for me. The plot is not intricately crafted, but it is still a more realistic, darker ...more

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Jul 29, 2008 Rachel Piper rated it it was amazing

Shelves: all-time-favorites, girls-coming-of-age, fantasy, comfort-reads, own, fervently-recommend, perennial-re-read

It's been a few years since I've re-read this, but I was feeling sick on Christmas and just wanted a comfort read to cozy up with.

After an earlier conversation with my husband about how I've started to worry that I've lost the attention span for reading text, I vowed to focus entirely on this reading experience — no pausing to check my phone, even if it was to look up some related question. I picked the right book, even though it was a re-read, a story I've visited countless times. Corie and he ...more

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Jan 08, 2012 Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides rated it liked it

Shelves: cover-pretty-white-girl, fantasy-fiction

Date of first reading approximate. Not worldview-shaking, but a good soothing comfort read.

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Apr 07, 2008 Jackie "the Librarian" rated it liked it

Shelves: youngadult, fantasy

A good fantasy for teen girls.
I really enjoy what I've read by Sharon Shinn. She reminds me a lot of Anne McCaffrey, especially her Archangel series (which is adult, unlike this one). ...more

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