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A Fierce and Subtle Poison

Samantha Mabry

Lucas spends each summer in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where stories surround a shuttered, walled house on Calle Sol. People toss written wishes over its wall, and after Lucas’s love interest Marisol does so, she disappears and is later found dead. Other girls have vanished in the same way. When one of Lucas’s old wishes appears beside his bed, he enters the house to investigate. There he meets Isabel, the girl of local legend, whose touch is deadly.

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Themes
Folklore And Mythology · Grief And Loss · Love · Mystery And Discovery
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published
May 30, 2017
Pages
289
ISBN-13
9781616206987
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
  • 2017Fiction for Young Adults
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