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Laura Amy Schlitz delivers this Horn Book Fanfare and Cybils Award-winning best-seller that whisks 11-year-old Maud Flynn from a cold New England orphanage and into the stately mansion of three wealthy spinsters. After the Hawthorne sisters adopt her in 1909, they tell her she's their secret child. She must remain indoors at all times and must never stand in front of windows. Since these old ladies treat her so well, Maud doesn't mind their restrictions. But she does wonder what could possibly require such secrecy.
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Laura Amy Schlitz is the author of four previous middle-grade novels, including the Newbery Honor Book Splendors and Glooms and The Hired Girl, which won the National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction. She was awarded a Newbery Medal for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village.
Alma Cuervo is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and a stage actress and singer who has also performed in film and television. She holds an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, from which she graduated in 1976 alongside Meryl Streep. She starred in the role of Madame Morrible in the first national tour of Wicked.