I thought they were very well developed and I loved the diversity in LGBTQ+ characters. I fell in love with all of the characters.

This book has a very whimsical tone and an atmospheric setting, but it also felt very realistic. She lives in Santa Monica, California (Katrina Leno, n.d.). She has published 5 YA novels: Horrid, Everything All at Once, You Must Not Miss, The Lost and Found, The Half-Life of Molly Pierce, and Summer of Salt. She was the previous copyeditor at UproXX Media and is currently the content manager at Christy Dawn. Katrina received a Bachelors Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Connecticut and she received her Masters in Creative Writing from Edinburgh Napier University. Georgina and her friends make it their mission to find out who or what killed Annabelle, but she is easily distracted by a female visitor on the island that she begins to fall for, and the island keeps growing very suspicious of Mary. The island goes into an uproar when Annabelle is found dead in the forest with her nest torn to pieces. The 300-year-old Eastern Seaborn Flicker bird may by a rare bird to everyone else, but the Ferweh family believes that it is one of their ancestors watching over them. They live on By-the-Sea Island that attracts many visitors every year during the summer festival when a very rare bird comes to visit named Annabelle. Mary has already discovered that her powers allow her to float in midair, but Georgina starts getting nervous that she might be the very first woman in her family that does not get to have magical powers. It’s not only the summer that they finally turn 18 and are about to leave for college, but they will also have magical powers by then! They are the next of many generations of Ferweh women to have magical powers. Twins Georgina and Mary are so excited for this summer.

Reading Level/Interest Level: Grades 6-12.

Awards/Honors: Amelia Bloomer List YA Fiction 2019, Best Fiction for Young Adults 2019, Rainbow Book List YA Fiction 2019.

'Crackles with wit, humor, and enormous love.'- Booklist (starred review) Readers of all ages will find themselves swept away.' - VOYA Over the course of her last summer on the island-a summer of storms, falling in love, and the mystery behind one rare three-hundred-year-old bird-Georgina will learn the truth about magic, in all its many forms. But with her eighteenth birthday looming at the end of this summer, Georgina fears her gift will never come. Georgina Fernweh waits impatiently for the tingle of magic in her fingers-magic that has touched every woman in her family. Practical Magic meets Nova Ren Suma's Imaginary Girls and Laura Ruby's Bone Gap in this lush, atmospheric novel by acclaimed author Katrina Leno.

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