The Seven Magpies
by Monica Hughes
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It's 1939 and Britain has just declared war. 14 year old Maureen is sent off to a remote boarding school in the Scottish highlands. In a heart-pounding climax, Maureen discovers the surprising, real danger and a strength she didn't know she had.Tags
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"The girls at her new boarding school are just as Maureen feared: cruel and cliquish. But there's also something weird about them, something sinister. Why do they slip away in the middle of the night to visit the woods surrounding the school? What's their secret society, called the Seven Magpies, about?" The author leaves open the question of the influence of the stones for good or evil, and the story works very well indeed as a boarding school tale about a sensitive new girl sent to boarding school, away from the east coast of Scotland, when her parents join the armed forces for "the Duration".
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Monica Hughes was born in Liverpool, England on November 3, 1925. Before joining the Women's Royal Naval Service, she lived in Egypt as a child and went to school in Scotland. During World War II, she worked on breaking German codes. In 1952, she immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and began working at Ottawa's National Research Council. She show more started writing survival stories and science fiction novels for young adults. Her works include the Isis trilogy and Hunter in the Dark. She won numerous awards including the Phoenix Award for literary merit. She was named to the Order of Canada in 2002. She died from a stroke on March 7, 2003 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1996
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