Sugaring Off
Published on 9. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-64375-379-9 (ISBN)
Description
A dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss-with a dash of thrilling mystery-for fans of Mindy McGinnis and Courtney Summers.
Owl has always been her freest self in the mountains, tracking, hiking, and exploring the steep forested acres of her aunt and uncle's maple sugar farm. They never speak of the childhood tragedy that left her partially deaf and sent her father to jail. All Owl wants is to stay safe at the farm, her favorite place in the world, her refuge from those who would treat her differently.
Owl's sheltered existence is blown wide open by Cody-the magnetic, dangerous young man hired to help with the season's sugaring off. Cody seems to see the real her, to look past her hearing loss in a way no one else does. Together, they find comfort in their similarities and exhilaration in their differences, and risk a romance their families are desperate to stop.
But then Owl hears her father will be released from prison, and a seemingly motiveless murder shakes the foundations of her small town. When the crime draws all eyes to Cody, Owl realized he is in far more serious trouble than anyone knows-and it's followed him to her mountain.
*ITW Thriller Award Finalist*
Owl has always been her freest self in the mountains, tracking, hiking, and exploring the steep forested acres of her aunt and uncle's maple sugar farm. They never speak of the childhood tragedy that left her partially deaf and sent her father to jail. All Owl wants is to stay safe at the farm, her favorite place in the world, her refuge from those who would treat her differently.
Owl's sheltered existence is blown wide open by Cody-the magnetic, dangerous young man hired to help with the season's sugaring off. Cody seems to see the real her, to look past her hearing loss in a way no one else does. Together, they find comfort in their similarities and exhilaration in their differences, and risk a romance their families are desperate to stop.
But then Owl hears her father will be released from prison, and a seemingly motiveless murder shakes the foundations of her small town. When the crime draws all eyes to Cody, Owl realized he is in far more serious trouble than anyone knows-and it's followed him to her mountain.
*ITW Thriller Award Finalist*
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Workman Publishing
Target group
Young adult
Interest Age: From 14 to 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
282 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64375-379-9 (9781643753799)
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Gillian French
Sugaring Off
E-Book
11/2022
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
€6.99
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Gillian French is the author of five novels for teens: Grit, The Door to January, The Lies They Tell, The Missing Season, and Sugaring Off. Her books have been finalists for an Edgar Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and an International Thriller Award, and have won a Lupine Award and two Maine Literary Awards. She lives with her husband and sons in Maine, where she's perpetually at work on her next novel. Visit her online at gillianfrench.com.