{"product_id":"0803731000","title":"The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution","description":"\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ean Exciting, Romantic Novel Set Against The Feverish Backdrop Of The French Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eclever And Head-turningly Attractive, Fourteen-year-old Yann Is An Orphan Who Has Been Raised In Paris By Têtu, A Dwarf With Secrets He Has Yet To Reveal To The Gypsy Boy. It’s The Winter Of 1789, And The Duo Have Been Working For A Vain Magician Named Topolain. On The Night When Topolain’s Vanity Brings His Own Death, Yann’s Life Truly Begins. That’s The Night He Meets Shy Sido, An Heiress With An Ice-cold Father, A Young Girl Who Has Only Known Loneliness Until Now. Though They Have The Shortest Of Conversations, An Attachment Is Born That Will Influence Both Their Paths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand What Paths Those Will Be! Revolution Is Afoot In France, And Sido Is Being Used As A Pawn. Only Yann Will Dare To Rescue Her, And He’ll Be Up Against A Fearful Villain Who Goes By The Name Count Kalliovski, But Who Has Often Been Called The Devil. It’ll Take All Of Yann’s Newly Discovered Talent To Unravel The...\u003c\/p\u003e\npublishers Weekly\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eset During The French Revolution, Gardner's (\u003ci\u003ei, Coriander\u003c\/i\u003e) Epic And Tautly Plotted Tale Engages Readers From The Start With Its Combination Of Romance And History, Mystery And Magic. Yann Magoza, An Orphan, Travels With Entertainers Who Use Supernatural Powers In Their Act; Yann Himself Can Read Minds. As The Novel Opens, Yann And His Companions Are Brought To A Marquis's Chateau, Where Yann Has A Brief But Fateful Meeting With The Foolish And Cruel Marquis's Brave Daughter, Sidonie, And Where The Marquis's Associate, A Scheming Count, Brutally But Cleverly Murders One Of The Magicians. The Pace Retains This Thrilling Momentum All The Way Through The Heart-stopping Climax. As Gardner Slowly Discloses Yann's And Sido's Heritages, She Ratchets Up Tension About The Marquis's And The Count's Plans For Sido. She Lards Her Story With Intriguing Details, Like The Red Garnet Necklaces Left Like Signatures With A Series Of Murder Victims, And Threads Of Light That Make Yann's Magic Possible. The Novel Also Paints Vivid, Convincing Pictures Of The Revolution: Characters Glimpse The Massed Thousands Of Parisian Women Marching To Versailles, Pitchforks In Hand, Demanding Bread, And Mobs Setting Upon Suspected Aristocrats. Suspenseful, Complex And Haunting. Ages 12-up. \u003ci\u003e(may)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ecopyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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