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A Drop of Night

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Maggie L., Teen Board Member

In A DROP OF NIGHT, Stefan Bachmann's latest work, readers are introduced to a young girl named Anouak. Anouk, along with four other gifted teens, has received the opportunity to fly to France and help investigate a newly found underground palace that will be huge news for the history community. Anouk doesn't bond well with other people, but she's more than happy to get out of the house and away from her family. Read More

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Seventeen-year-old Anouk has been selected out of hundreds of other candidates to fly to France and help with the excavation of a vast, underground palace buried a hundred feet below the suburbs of Paris. Built in the 1780's to hide an aristocratic family and a mad duke during the French Revolution, the palace has lain hidden and forgotten ever since. Anouk, along with several other gifted teenagers, will be the first to set foot in it in over two centuries --- or so she thought. But nothing is as it seems, and the teens soon find themselves trapped in a game far more sinister, and dangerous, than they could possibly have imagined.

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Seventeen-year-old Anouk has been selected out of hundreds of other candidates to fly to France and help with the excavation of a vast, underground palace buried a hundred feet below the suburbs of Paris. Built in the 1780's to hide an aristocratic family and a mad duke during the French Revolution, the palace has lain hidden and forgotten ever since. Anouk, along with several other gifted teenagers, will be the first to set foot in it in over two centuries --- or so she thought. But nothing is as it seems, and the teens soon find themselves trapped in a game far more sinister, and dangerous, than they could possibly have imagined.

About the Book

Modern-day teenagers meet a palace of terrors locked up since the French Revolution in this haunting, genre-bending thriller from Stefan Bachmann, the internationally bestselling author of THE PECULIAR and THE WHATNOT. A DROP OF NIGHT will thrill fans of Neal Shusterman and Jessica Khoury.

Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break she's been looking for --- she's been selected out of hundreds of other candidates to fly to France and help with the excavation of a vast, underground palace buried a hundred feet below the suburbs of Paris. Built in the 1780's to hide an aristocratic family and a mad duke during the French Revolution, the palace has lain hidden and forgotten ever since. Anouk, along with several other gifted teenagers, will be the first to set foot in it in over two centuries.

Or so she thought.

But nothing is as it seems, and the teens --- bitter, iron-hearted Anouk, gentle Will, bubbly Lilly and crazy Jules --- soon find themselves trapped in a game far more sinister, and dangerous, than they could possibly have imagined.

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Dorothy Must...Party! The Yellow Brick War Launch Party

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By Rebecca Munro
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On Tuesday, March 15th, I followed the yellow-edged subway platforms downtown from our NYC offices for a very special launch party for YELLOW BRICK WAR, the third book in Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die series.