The Lie Tree / Frances Hardinge
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TextDescription: 377 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9781419718953; 1419718959Subject(s): Sex role -- Juvenile fiction | Fathers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction | Young adult fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | Juvenile works. DDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PR6108.A72574 | L54 2016PZ7.H21834 | Li 2016Summary: On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truthSummary: On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal. She discovers a tree that bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it-- and the fruit, in turn, delivers a hidden truth. Does the tree hold the key to her father's murder? Or will it lead the murderer to Faith herself?
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Originally published in Great Britain in 2015 by Macmillan UK
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal. She discovers a tree that bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it-- and the fruit, in turn, delivers a hidden truth. Does the tree hold the key to her father's murder? Or will it lead the murderer to Faith herself?
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