Evocative settings and imagery help bring this bizarre corner of Brooklyn to life including strong allusions to the Studio Ghibli film “Howl’s Moving Castle.” Complicated dynamics within Vassa’s blended family add another dimension to the story. This standalone urban fantasy is inspired by the Russian folktake “ Vassilisa the Beautiful.” Although Vassa is described as incredibly pale, the rest of the book is populated with characters who are realistically diverse. When things don’t go as planned in BY’s it will take all of Vassa’s wits and Erg’s cunning to escape the store alive and maybe even break whatever curse has been placed on Brooklyn’s nights in Vassa in the Night (2016) by Sarah Porter.

Even her enchanted wooden doll, Erg, is willing to behave and keep her sticky fingers to herself this once. Vassa is sure getting out of the store quickly will be easy. When her stepsister (Stephanie, naturally) sends Vassa out in the middle of the night for light bulbs the only store that’s still open is the local BY’s. Everyone knows about BY’s, and its owner Babs Yagg, but people do tend to remember a store that dances around on chicken legs and has a habit of decapitating shoplifters. The nights have been acting especially strange as they become longer and longer. It’s an odd living arrangement to Vassa but no more peculiar than a lot of things in her working-class Brooklyn neighborhood.

Chelsea is nice enough but Stephanie might actually hate Vassa–which is fine since it’s mostly mutual. So now she has a stepmother and two stepsisters.

Vassa’s father stayed only long enough to settle Vassa with his new wife. OL20037228W Page_number_confidence 92.90 Pages 312 Partner Innodata Pdf_degraded invalid-page-size Pdf_module_version 0.0.360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210330105729 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 252 Scandate 20210325053346 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780765380548 Tts_version 4.Sixteen-year-old Vassa Lisa Lowenstein isn’t sure where she fits in her family or if it even qualifies as a family. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:14:25 Boxid IA40085012 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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