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    Growing Wings
    Growing Wings
    Growing Wings
    Ebook171 pages2 hours

    Growing Wings

    By Laurel Winter

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    "Linnet waited with her eyes closed for the door to open and her mother to peek in. Waited for her to touch Linnet's shoulder blades lightly...Linnet knew that touch in her bones, as if it had happened every night of her life. An imprint, a memory of the skin itself."

    So begins this startling first novel about an eleven-year-old girl who suddenly begins to grow wings -- wings with soft auburn feathers, which only at first can be hidden with long hair and loose clothes. Funny, sad, and hopeful, this remarkable story captures a girl's shock at feeling alone in life, as it follows her journey to answer a most important question: how can a girl with wings ever fit into the world?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 18, 2010
    ISBN9780547488882
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    • 3/5
      A fun read but seemed like a draft. It needed some editing and some fleshing out of parts. I read the ebook version and there were a significant number of typos, such as when a scanner program mistakes one letter for another- so it was still readable but slightly annoying.
    • 4/5
      this was an OK, quick read that promised so much but had a very dissapointing ending. 3.5 stars for the intersting ideas and charaters though.

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