International Standard Book Number |
9780823446414 (hardcover)
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International Standard Book Number |
0823446417 (hardcover)
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International Standard Book Number |
9780823450343 (ebook)
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Personal Name |
Bishara, Cristin. author.
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Title Statement |
Vial of tears / Cristin Bishara.
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Edition Statement |
First edition.
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Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Holiday House, 2021.
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Physical Description |
xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Summary, Etc. |
When Samira receives a strange vase with some ancient coins, she and her sister Rima are pulled into Baalbek, a Phoenician underworld where they are caught up in the a struggle between deities, shapeshifters, and ghouls--and Eshmun, who wants his obol, his burial coin, back.
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Summary, Etc. |
Teenage sisters Samira and Rima aren't exactly living the dream. Instead, they live with their maddeningly unreliable mother in a rundown trailer in Michigan. Dad's dead, money's tight, and Mom disappears for days at a time. So when Sam's grandfather wills her the family valuables--a cache of Lebanese antiquities--she's desperate enough to try pawning them before Mom can. But she shouldn't. Because one is cursed, forbidden, the burial coin of a forgotten god. Disturbing it condemns her and Rima to the Phoenician underworld, a place of wicked cities, burning cedar forests, poisoned feasts of milk and lemons, and an endless, windless ocean. Nothing is what it seems. No one is who they say. And down here, the night never ends. To get home--and keep her sister safe--Sam will have to outwit beautiful shapeshifters, pose as a royal bride, sail the darkest sea... and maybe kill the god of death himself.
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Target Audience Note |
Ages 14 up. Holiday House.
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Target Audience Note |
Grades 10-12. Holiday House.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Phoenician antiquities Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sisters Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Shapeshifting Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Monsters Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Magic Juvenile fiction.
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Index Term-Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction.
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Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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