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Los Angeles, 1917: a free-spirited girl sets out to become a film director, and a boy disabled after a childhood bout with polio is determined to succeed on his own, each with a wondrous ability to manipulate the world around them ...
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Kate Witherspoon has lived a bohemian life with her artist parents. In 1917, the new art form of the motion picture is changing entertainment–and Kate is determined to become a director.
Meanwhile, midwestern farm boy Julian Birch has inherited the wanderlust that fueled his parents’ adventures. A childhood bout with polio has left him crippled, but he refuses to let his disability define him.
Strangers driven by a shared vision, Kate and Julian set out separately for Los Angeles. When they finally meet, the teenage runaways realize their true magical legacy: the ability to triumph over death, over time. But as their parents before them learned, all magic comes with a price.
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Author: Saundra Mitchell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication year: 2013
ISBN: 9780547853147
Age category: young adult
Disability portrayed: limp
Genres: fantasy, historical
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication year: 2013
ISBN: 9780547853147
Age category: young adult
Disability portrayed: limp
Genres: fantasy, historical
Author
Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture-deliverer and a layout waxer. She’s dodged trains, endured basic training, and hitchhiked from Montana to California. The author of nearly twenty books for tweens and teens, Mitchell’s work includes Edgar Nominee Shadowed Summer, The Vespertine series, Lambda Finalist and IAA winner All the Things We Do in the Dark, and the Camp Murderface series with Josh Berk. She’s also the editor of three anthologies for teens, Defy the Dark, All Out and Out Now. She always picks truth; dares are too easy.
I write thinky books in a move-y category. I have tried and tried and tried to be more plot-oriented, to write faster-moving, more urgent books. But I just … I write a book because I have a question I want to try to answer, and all those characters are asking and answering that question from different points of view. So I end up with quiet books.(Sasha and Amber Read, April 2020)
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