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Algonquin Young Readers
April 2016
On Sale: April 12, 2016
Featuring: Isabel; Lucas
288 pages ISBN: 1616205210 EAN: 9781616205218 Kindle: B013JBH8BU Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult Romance | Young Adult Adventure
In this stunning debut, legends collide with reality when
a boy is swept into the magical, dangerous world of a
girl filled with poison.
Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl--Isabel,
the one the senoras whisper about. They say she has green
skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous
plants that fill her family’s Caribbean island garden.
Some say she can grant wishes; some say her touch can
kill. Seventeen-year-old Lucas lives on the mainland most of
the year but spends summers with his hotel-developer
father in Puerto Rico. He’s grown up hearing stories
about the cursed girl, and he wants to believe in Isabel
and her magic. When letters from Isabel begin
mysteriously appearing in his room the same day his new
girlfriend disappears, Lucas turns to Isabel for answers-
-and finds himself lured into her strange and enchanted
world. But time is running out for the girl filled with
poison, and the more entangled Lucas becomes with Isabel,
the less certain he is of escaping with his own life. A Fierce and Subtle Poison beautifully blends magical
realism with a page-turning mystery and a dark,
starcrossed romance--all delivered in lush, urgent prose.
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