As always, my family is my glorious, gallows-humor salvation, even when I don’t tell them what I’m working on and therefore when the cover goes live I get a series of surprised texts because nobody knew I had another book coming out so soon. My bad. I promise this one is a lot shorter than the last one, and nobody’s parents die.
I want to thank my readers: the ones who’ve stuck with me and the ones just discovering me. First of all, I have an amazing backlist—check it out—and second of all, when something I write shows you the world, that’s how I know I belong, too. Thank you for reading, for telling me you’re reading, and especially for telling me when it matters to you.
Thank you, Natalie, for letting me be your villain love interest(s).
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Strange Grace
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TESSA GRATTON is the author of the adult novels The Queens of Innis Lear and Lady Hotspur from Tor Books, as well as several YA series and short stories that have been translated into twentytwo languages. Her most recent YA novel is the original fairy tale Strange Grace from McElderry Books. Though she has lived all over the world, she currently lives near the Kansas prairie with her wife. She is the associate director of Madcap Retreats and worked as the lead writer for Serial Box Publishing’s project Tremontaine. Visit her at tessagratton.com.
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Strange Grace
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Title: Night shine / Tessa Gratton.
Description: First edition. | New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, 2020. | Audience: Ages 14 up. | Audience: Grades 10-12. | Summary: An orphan girl undertakes a dangerous journey to rescue her friend the prince from a powerful sorceress
Identifiers: LCCN 2020009412 (print) | ISBN 9781534460775 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9781534460799 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Wizards—Juvenile fiction. | Magic—Juvenile fiction. | Kidnapping—Juvenile fiction. | Identity (Psychology)—Juvenile fiction. | Quests (Expeditions)—Juvenile fiction. | Secrecy—Juvenile fiction. | Fantasy. | CYAC: Wizards—Fiction. | Magic—Fiction. | Kidnapping—Fiction. | Identity—Fiction. | Secrets—Fiction. | Fantasy. | LCGFT: Fantasy fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.G77215 Ni 2020 (print) | DDC 813.6 [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009412