The Deep Dark (PB)

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Author: Knox Ostertag, Molly Interest age: from c 14 yearsPublished on 4 July 2024 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 480 pages215 x 154 x 25 | 944g “Utterly compellin g” - Observer From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator of the NewYork Times and ABA Indie bestselling The Witch Boytrilogy and The Girl from the Sea, comes a darklybeautiful graphic novel about identity, family, love, loss and magic.Everyone has secrets. Mags's has teeth.Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she alreadyfeels like an adult with serious responsibilities: caring forher ailing grandmother; working a part-time job; clandestine makeoutswith a girl who has a boyfriend. And then there's her secret,which pulls her into the basement each night, drains her ofenergy, and leaves her bleeding. A secret that could hurt and evenkill if it ever got out - like it did once before.So Mags keeps her head down, isolated in her small desert community.That is, until her childhood friend Nessa comes back to town,bringing vivid memories of the past, an intoxicating glimpseof the future, and a secret of her own. Mags won't get attached,of course. She’s always been strong enough to survive withoutanyone's help.But when the darkness starts to close in on them both, Mags willhave to drag her secret into the daylight, and choose betweenrisking everything... or having nothing left to lose.A hauntingly beautiful tale of identity, family, love, loss andmagicPerfect for fans of the ABA Indie The Witch Boy trilologyand The Girl From the SeaFrom the New York Times bestselling author, Molly KnoxOstertag Show more