The Colors of Madeleine 01: Corner of White (46 page)

Text copyright © 2013 by Jaclyn Moriarty

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Moriarty, Jaclyn.
A corner of white / Jaclyn Moriarty. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (The colors of Madeleine; bk. 1)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with poverty and her mother’s illness, and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father is missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.

ISBN 978-0-545-39736-0 (hardcover: alk. paper) [1. Interpersonal relations — Fiction. 2. Magic — Fiction. 3. Missing persons — Fiction. 4. Color — Fiction. 5. Princesses — Fiction. 6. Cambridge (England) — Fiction. 7. England — Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M826727Cor 2013

[Fic] — dc23

2012016582

First edition, April 2013

e-ISBN 978-0-545-51021-9

Cover art © 2013 by Pierre Doucin

Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

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