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The weight of feathers, Anna-Marie McLemore

eng

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HL730L, lexile

fiction

The weight of feathers

898419055

Anna-Marie McLemore

Reading Counts, High School, 6.5, 20.Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 4.9, 12, 176567.

Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in loveThe Palomas and the Corbeaus have long been rivals and enemies, locked in an escalating feud for more than a generation. Both families make their living as traveling performers in competing shows--the Palomas swimming in mermaid exhibitions, the Corbeaus, former tightrope walkers, performing in the tallest trees they can find. Lace Paloma may be new to her family's show, but she knows as well as anyone that the Corbeaus are pure magia negra, black magic from the devil himself. Simply touching one could mean death, and she's been taught since birth to keep away. But when disaster strikes the small town where both families are performing, it's a Corbeau boy, immerses her in the world of the Corbeaus, where falling for him could turn his own family against hymn, and one misstep could be just as dangerous on the ground as it is in the trees. Beautifully written and richly imaginative, The Weight of Feathers is and utterly captivating young adult novel by a talented new voice. --, From dust jacket

adolescent