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Without Tess

Marcella Pixley
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Pages
288
Year
2011
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

About

Tess and Lizzie are sisters, sisters as close as can be, who share a secret world filled with selkies, flying horses, and a girl who can transform into a wolf in the middle of the night. But when Lizzie is ready to grow up, Tess clings to their fantasies. As Tess sinks deeper and deeper into her delusions, she decides that she can't live in the real world any longer and leaves Lizzie and her family forever. Now, years later, Lizzie is in high school and struggling to understand what happened to her sister. With the help of a school psychologist and Tess's battered journal, Lizzie searches for a way to finally let Tess go.

Related Subjects

  • Emotions & Feelings
  • Social Themes
  • Young Adult Fiction
  • General
  • Thrillers & Suspense
  • Siblings
  • Family

Extended Details

  • ATOSGrade Level 4.6
  • Interest LevelsUG
  • Lexile790L

Reviews

"Following up on themes raised in her well-received first novel, 'Freak,'…Marcella Pixley continues to explore the complexities of sibling loyalty."
New York Times
"Pixley's memory play is a difficult, sadly beautiful ode to a complex and heartbreaking issue."
Publishers Weekly Online, Starred Review
"… [a] lyrical, heartrending novel."
School Library Journal, Starred Review

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