"Here it is, the Harry Potter for historical fiction-inclined teenaged girls. There’s a social justice plotline, a eugenics plotline, an escape from an insane asylum, a mystery, a quest, and a venerable boarding school in upstate New York that secretly recruits young women and teaches them magic.
Clear your schedule, because from the get-go (the opening scene is the Triangle Shirtwaist fire) you won’t be able to put this one down. Grab the just-as-excellent sequel, Ravencliffe, while you’re at it. You’re going to need that one too."
Publisher Speak
Publication Date 2014-10-21
Section Young Adult / All Staff Suggestions / Suggestions for Kids / Fiction Suggestions / Archived Staff Suggestions / Liz S.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780142422519
“Carol Goodman’s Blythewood is reminiscent of both Harry Potter and The Diviners, but in a way that doesn’t distract from the entertaining story within."*
After narrowly escaping death in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, seventeen-year-old Avaline Hall is sent to Blythewood Academy, the elite girls’ boarding school in New York’s Hudson Valley that her mother attended years before. Ava hopes to solve the mystery of her mother’s death and its connection to the students who keep disappearing from Blythewood. But the school is not all that it appears . . . and neither is the handsome young man who saved Ava from the fire. What’s the meaning of the extraordinary powers Ava possesses? Who’s good and who’s evil? And who has the right to make that distinction?
*review of Blythewood by Forever Young Adult
