★ 'Exquisite to the final word.'- Booklist, starred review ★ 'Both lushly sensual and shivery.'- School Library Journal, starred reviewĬustomers who bought this item also bought. He is as natural as the sun, and he treats her as if she is extraordinary. Then Eldric comes along with his golden lion eyes and a great mane of tawny hair. It is a secret that killed her stepmother, ruined her sister's mind, and will end her life, if anyone were to know. Part mystery, part fantasy, this beautifully-written page turner explores guilt, mercy, and love.- New York Times bestselling author Holly Black Briony has a secret. Reading Level: 4.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 13.0 Physical Information: 1.1' H x 5.4' W x 8.2' (0.70 lbs) 384 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents Young Adult Fiction | Family - Siblings Young Adult Fiction | Romance - General She believes her secret killed her stepmother, destroyed her twin sister’s mind, and threatens all the children in the Swampsea. Nancy Werlin, author of Impossible and Extraordinary Briony has a secret.

We don't really know much about him, but he sounds like someone cool to meet based on the 'handsome stranger' (1.8) description.Contributor(s): Billingsley, Franny (Author)īinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Chime Romantic, mysterious, and wildly inventive. Does this girl mean anything she says? Maybe she's just fond of hyperbole. Even though she doesn't want to tell her story she starts to anyway.There is some more begging and pleading for us to believe her so we think she means it-that or she just really can't stand living with these smelly, swampy, dead hand memories.Someone called 'Chime Child' wants to give this pretty, arrogant, evil, suicidal person a chance seemingly because she doesn't want to 'hang an innocent girl again' (1.5).Based on this chapter's title, it feels like we are the jury, or maybe even the judge. Get ready to be a little confused, Shmoopsters, because this narrator is talking to us like we know the whole story.She goes on to describe herself as having 'the face of an angel' (1.4) but a 'horrid sort of heart' (1.4), which we know is pretty common actually and not that surprising-especially if you've watched Mean Girls or any other teen movie.

If the suicide isn't interesting enough for you, there's also some grossness about dead hands and smelly eels and swamps that swallow.

How do you end a story before it even begins? With a narrator who wants to be hanged and politely declines retelling her story.

Chime by franny billingsley