The Pearl Thief

The Pearl Thief

By Elizabeth Wein

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A stunning new novel from New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Wein, a prequel to the award-winning Code Name Verity.

Before Verity . . . there was Julie.
  
   When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly like she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she la
nded in the hospital.
   
  Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scots Traveller boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, she experiences some of the prejudices they've grown used to firsthand, a stark contrast to her own upbringing, and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation.
  
   Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travellers. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime.
   
  In this prequel to Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, the exhilarating coming-of-age story returns to a beloved character just before she learned to fly.
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
ISBN-13: 9781432843700
ISBN-10: 1432843702
Published on 10/4/2017
Binding: Hardcover

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Even though I'm not done with this book yet, I recommend it. I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about it that just makes it really good. I haven't read Code Name Verity although I might over the summer. Overall, really interesting.