Always Emily
by Michaela MacColl
"As exhilarating as a stroll across the wind-swept moor..." -- Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak and Wintergirls
"There's lots to like here: mystery, adventure, and a snippet of romance." --Booklist
"The prolonged climax is satisfyingly action-filled and breathtakingly resolved."
--Publishers Weekly
"Filled with life, death, mystery and witty humor." --School Library Journal (starred review)
"Equal parts gothic melodrama and Nancy Drew derring-do." --Kirkus Reviews
MRC has copies of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
(plus Agnes Grey, by their sister Anne, who sort of gets the shaft in Always Emily...)
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