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A Corner of White (The Colors of Madeleine, Book 1)

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2 of 3 copies available
The first in a rousing, funny, genre-busting trilogy from bestseller Jaclyn Moriarty!

This is a tale of missing persons. Madeleine and her mother have run away from their former life, under mysterious circumstances, and settled in a rainy corner of Cambridge (in our world).Elliot, on the other hand, is in search of his father, who disappeared on the night his uncle was found dead. The talk in the town of Bonfire (in the Kingdom of Cello) is that Elliot's dad may have killed his brother and run away with the Physics teacher. But Elliot refuses to believe it. And he is determined to find both his dad and the truth.As Madeleine and Elliot move closer to unraveling their mysteries, they begin to exchange messages across worlds — through an accidental gap that hasn't appeared in centuries. But even greater mysteries are unfolding on both sides of the gap: dangerous weather phenomena called "color storms;" a strange fascination with Isaac Newton; the myth of the "Butterfly Child," whose appearance could end the droughts of Cello; and some unexpected kisses...
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 13, 2013
      Two worlds coexist in this fascinating first book in Moriarty's Colors of Madeleine series. Bright, enigmatic 14-year-old Madeleine has moved to Cambridge, England, with her mother, where she receives home schooling from a small group of eccentric teachers, along with friends Jack and Belle. Madeleine accidentally makes contact with the fantastical Kingdom of Cello when she discovers a message poking out of a broken parking meter. She begins a written correspondence with 15-year-old Elliott, a boy living in the Cellian farming town of Bonfire, where Colors, "a kind of rogue subclass of the colors that we see," are known to attack and kill (Elliott's father was the alleged victim of a "Purple"), and the arrival of the fabled "Butterfly Child" is an auspicious sign. As the narrative alternates between Cello and Cambridge, some readers may be frustrated by the slow unfolding of events, yet moments of sharp observation, startling invention, and delightfully comic dialogue confirm Moriarty as a genre-bending author who gracefully weaves metaphysical questions into outwardly ordinary circumstances. Ages 12âup. Agent: Jill Grinberg Literary Management.

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      August 16, 2012
      Madeleine lives in Cambridge, England, The World, where she is homeschooled along with her two friends Belle and Jack. One day Madeleine finds a letter in a parking meter—and for the fun of it, she replies. The recipient of her letter is Elliot—resident of Bonfire, The Farms, The Kingdom of Cello. We learn that there used to be contact between the two worlds until all cracks between them were sealed around the time of Henry VIII. But now a crack has appeared, which allows Elliot and Madeleine to write to each other. Though it takes a while for Madeleine to believe she is talking to someone from another world (she accuses Elliot of ripping off Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights in his description of his town), the two find solace in writing to someone who is so completely removed from their current situation. We see both teenagers struggling to deal with responsibilities that would normally be handled by a parent, and how they are helped by this magical connection. Jaclyn Moriarty’s books are always original and quirky and this one certainly doesn’t disappoint. I would recommend it to both adults and teenagers in search of something a little less ordinary.

      Amelia Vahtrick is the children’s book buyer at Better Read Than Dead in Newtown

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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:800
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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