Forget-Her-Nots
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Something—some power—is blooming inside Laurel. She can use flowers to do things. Like bringing back lost memories. Or helping her friends ace tests. Or making people fall in love.
Laurel suspects her newfound ability has something to do with an ancient family secret, one that her mother meant to share with Laurel when the time was right. But then time ran out.
Clues and signs and secret messages seem to be all around Laurel at Avondale School, where her mother had also boarded as a student. Can Laurel piece everything together quickly enough to control her power, which is growing more potent every day? Or will she set the stage for the most lovestruck, infamous prom in the history of the school?
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The mysteries of Victorian flower lore pervade White s debut, in which 14-year-old Laurel strives to shape a new life after her mother s death from cancer. Hoping a change of locale will help her grief, Laurel enrolls in the boarding school her mother attended. Once at Avondale, she discovers a bewildering ability to stir up emotions by creating floral bouquets, and she s soon in demand by students with a variety of motives. Following the definitions in a serendipitously found book, The Language of Flowers, and reciting her mantra ( Bright cut flowers, leaves of green, bring about what I have seen ), Laurel tries to understand and properly use her gift, while coping with typical teenage dilemmas and uncovering her family s flower-related history. White aptly renders big and small dramas against the backdrop of Laurel s struggles with her flower power, and deftly walks the line between reality and fantasy without crossing it. A delicate sense of magical possibility and reverence for the natural world help elevate White s story from a typical prep-school drama into something more memorable. Ages 12 up.
