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The lost conspiracy / Frances Hardinge.

by Hardinge, Frances.

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Harper/HarperCollins, 2009.

Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.

9780060880422 (HarperCollins reinforced)

0060880422 (HarperCollins reinforced)

9780060880415 (HarperCollins trade bdg.)

0060880414 (HarperCollins trade bdg.)

9781405055383 (Macmillan Children's Books hc.)

1405055383 (Macmillan Children's Books hc.)

Alternate title:

Gullstruck Island

1 v. [various pagings].

This record reflects various editions of the same book published under two different titles.

Originally published as : Gullstruck Island. London : Macmillan Children's, 2009.

Macmillan ed. includes a map.

"On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits. Arilou is proclaimed a beautiful prophetess—one of the island's precious oracles: a Lost. Hathin, her junior, is her nearly invisible attendant. But neither Arilou nor Hathin is exactly what she seems, and they live a lie that is carefully constructed and jealously guarded. When the sisters are unknowingly drawn into a sinister, island-wide conspiracy, quiet, unobtrusive Hathin must journey beyond all she has ever known of her world—and of herself—in a desperate attempt to save them both. As the stakes mount and falsehoods unravel, she discovers that the only thing more dangerous than the secret she hides is the truth she must uncover." --From the publisher.

Grades 6–9. SLJ.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

Fantasy fiction, Juvenile.

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