The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

Claire Legrand

Aug 2012 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

At the Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, you will definitely learn your lesson. An atmospheric, heartfelt, and delightfully spooky novel for fans of Coraline, Splendors and Glooms, and The Mysterious Benedict Society.

Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster—lazy and dreamy, shirt always untucked, obsessed with his silly piano. Victoria often wonders why she ever bothered being his friend. (Lawrence does, too.)

But then Lawrence goes missing. And he’s not the only one. Victoria soon discovers that The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls is not what it appears to be. Kids go in but come out…different. Or they don’t come out at all.

If anyone can sort this out, it’s Victoria—even if it means getting a little messy.

Ratings and reviews

Huge, HUGE "wtf." Kept me interested enough to keep reading until the last page but became particularly disturbing toward the end. I mean, seriously messed up. Also I can easily notice the flaws in the writing but unfortunately can't articulate what they are. Overall, I could take it or leave it. Kept me busy enough. NOT for children.

It's been layered very well each chapter getting more and more intense and suspicious I loved this spooky , mysterious book I give it a 5/5. A very intriguing read I would recommend it.:-) Awe struck :O !

Every year, I pick a random book off the library shelf to take on vacation, which usually turns out to be really good. This was the book I picked a couple years ago, and I was not disappointed. It is AWESOME, and I would recommend it to anybody.

About the author

Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn’t stop thinking about the stories in her head. Now Ms. Legrand is a full-time writer living in New Jersey. She has written two middle grade novels—The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing in 2012, and The Year of Shadows—as well as the young adult novel Winterspell. Visit her at Claire-Legrand.com and on Twitter @ClaireLegrand.

Sarah Watts is an illustrator of fabric lines, books, and other printed delights. She is married to an adventure junkie and she collects old treasures. Sarah is also the Alumni Board of Trustee member for Ringling College of Art and Design (RACD).