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The diviners

Libba Bray

201215 pagesabout 15–20 minutes
2012
first published
  • 2012Little, Brown · ENGISBN 9780316126113
  • 2013Little, Brown · 608 pages · ENGISBN 9780316126106
  • 2012Listening Library (Audio) · 15 pagesISBN 9780449808733

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfurl in the city that never sleeps. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened....

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Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSingle lead

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Written forMiddle grade

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ThemesJustice
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