Claire Legrand
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.85 | 4031 Users | 753 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls |
| Author | : | Claire Legrand |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | August 28th 2012 by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Middle Grade. Fantasy. Horror. Mystery. Young Adult. Fiction |
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At the Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, you will definitely learn your lesson. An atmospheric, heartfelt, and delightfully spooky novel for fans of Coraline, Splendors and Glooms, and The Mysterious Benedict Society.Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster, lazy and dreamy, shirt always untucked, obsessed with his silly piano. Victoria often wonders why she ever bothered being his friend. (Lawrence does, too.)
But then Lawrence goes missing. And he is not the only one. Victoria soon discovers that The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls is not what it appears to be. Kids go in but come out different. Or they don't come out at all.
If anyone can sort this out, it's Victoria, even if it means getting a little messy.
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| Original Title: | The Cavendish Home For Boys and Girls |
| ISBN: | 1442442913 (ISBN13: 9781442442917) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2014) |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 4031 Users | 753 ReviewsWeigh Up Out Of Books The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
Meet Victoria Wright, a 12-year-old whos so driven that she wont even make friends because friends are just idiots trying to distract you (p. 144) from the goal of being the most perfect child living on Silldie Place and attending Impetus Academy, Where Tradition Meets Innovation. Blonde-curled Victoria compulsively well-behaved, tidy, competitive, smugly self-assured lives in the town of Belleville, a Stepford, Conn., clone in which everything smelled of clean, crisp money (p. 83) andWonderfully gothic with one of my new favorite protagonists, Victoria. I was immediately drawn into the story, and I thought I basically knew where it was going (and was totally fine with it), but I was pleasantly surprised by the direction it took! For fans of Coraline and Series of Unfortunate Events.
What a deliciously horrible antagonist Mrs. Cavendish is in this story about a girl, Victoria, and her friend, Lawrence. Victoria strives for perfection and control in everything, and she has little to no patience for anything that deviates from her ideals. Lawrence is scruffy, untidy, and loves (shock!) music and playing the piano. Victoria and Lawrence live in Belleville, where everyone in town wants everything to be uncomplicated and good-looking, and conventional. Anything else is frowned
Lovely, creepy book. It doesn't really start out that way. 12 year old Victoria is one of those perfect children who are always neat and well behaved. She gets straight A's and even has curly blond hair and blue eyes. Her only friend is a musically talented boy that she befriended in order to improve him. Even the town they live in is picture postcard perfect. Then, children begin to disappear. Victoria doesn't notice it much until her friend Lawrence is one of them. Then, she decides that SHE
Absolutely charming and gorgeous story about a girl you can't help but root for all the way! I wasn't expecting to be as creeped out and horrified by some of the story as I was--but I LOVED it. This is horror middle grade and Claire knows exactly what she's doing. Victoria reminded me a lot of Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden who is my favorite, so of course I fell in love with her too. Definitely a top middle grade read!
Are you in the mood to spooked? Here is a delightfully dreadful tale that will give you the creepy-crawlies. 12-year-old Victoria's best friend Lawrence has gone missing. Not only is she confused and lonely after his disappearance, but no one in town seems to remember who he was. Prickly, persnickety Victoria is determined to find out what happened to him, and gradually her questions lead her straight to the tall, gray-brick Home at the end of her street where the bright-eyed Mrs. Cavendish
The premise here is simple, at least in its broad outlines: a boy goes missing, a girl has to go find him. It's refreshing that in this case it's the girl who rescues the boy, and that there are few overtones of obligatory-feeling romance between the two. And there are also some truly creepy descriptions that I wish had been developed into fuller scenes. But on the whole this book felt rushed to me, its characters thin and its plot confusing. (Full disclosure: I read an ARC, so some of these
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