Howard, A.G. (2013). Splintered. New York, NY: Amulet Books. ISBN 978-1419704284 Hardback, $17.95
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Annotation: Alyssa Gardner, great-great-great granddaughter of Alice Liddell, lives in fear of inheriting her mother’s madness. When she learns the truth, she must go down the rabbit hole and save her family from Alice’s curse.
Booktalk: Ever since her great-great-great grandmother Alice Liddell told Lewis Carroll about her dreams of going down the rabbit hole, it’s like Alyssa Gardner's family is cursed. Every woman eventually succumbs to madness. Her own mother, Alison, has been an inmate at Soul’s Asylum since Alyssa was 5 years old. Alyssa herself first began to hear the plants and insects talking when she was in 5th grade. Terrified of ending up in the asylum with her mom, Alyssa has been silently suffering ever since,
Then, during one of her weekly visits to the asylum, something changes. Alyssa and Alison have the same illusion at the same time and it’s trying to kill Alison. Suddenly, Alyssa must admit the reality she’s been denying for the last 7 years. After her mom tells Alyssa that the family is cursed because of what Alice did in Wonderland, Alyssa knows the only way to avoid the madness and save her mother is to go down the rabbit hole herself to undo the damage Alice did.
Awards:
- #2 on the 2014 Teen's Top 10 from YALSA
- 2014 Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
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