The Children: A Novel by Melissa Albert Card lift the flap to open

lift the flap to open the can of tomatoes

When the boss who’s disappointed her again and again finally offers her the chance to host her own show

It’s a great plan—with one big problem

including a map and a bestiary of magical creatures

and recount the birth throes of their unholy alliance

The Children: A Novel by Melissa Albert Card lift the flap to openGuinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she lives in the wooded shadow of her family's isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of her mothers world famous Ninth City books, where her magical adventures have made her a household name. In reality, Guinevere's childhood isn't the enchanted idyll her mothers readers imagine: she and her older brother are growing up near feral, unwashed and underfed, escaping each day to the lichen clotted