Wild Beauty

Wild BeautyIn Wild Beauty, acclaimed YA author Anna Marie McLemore introduces a spellbinding setting and two characters who are drawn together by fate and pulled apart by reality. Love grows such strange things. For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around the world. They've also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. But then,

In Wild Beauty, acclaimed YA author Anna-Marie McLemore introduces a spellbinding setting and two characters who are drawn together by fate--and pulled apart by reality.

Love grows such strange things.

For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around the world. They've also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. But then, after generations of vanishings, a strange boy appears in the gardens.

The boy is a mystery to Estrella, the Nomeolvides girl who finds him, and to her family, but he's even more a mystery to himself; he knows nothing more about who he is or where he came from than his first name. As Estrella tries to help Fel piece together his unknown past, La Pradera leads them to secrets as dangerous as they are magical in this stunning exploration of love, loss, and family.

Anna-Marie McLemore's debut novel The Weight of Feathers garnered fabulous reviews and was a finalist for the prestigious YALSA Morris Award, and her second novel, When the Moon was Ours, was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

Praise for Wild Beauty:

"No one does magical realism quite like McLemore, and this third novel, laced with slow-burning suspense, folklore, romance, and spun together with exquisite, luxuriant prose, proves it. . . . Sheer magic: fierce, bright, and blazing with possibility." --Booklist, starred review

A solid, must-have addition to McLemore's growing body of work, this fantastical tale will delight her fans and entice a new audience. --School Library Journal, starred review

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Square Fish
Published: 10/09/2018
ISBN: 9781250180735
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.10d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 193673 / Wild Beauty
Reading Level: 5.5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 12