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Text copyright © 2018 by Mary Taranta
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Taranta, Mary, author.
Title: Splendor and spark / Mary Taranta.
Description: First edition. | New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2018] | Summary: “Faris has her sister back but it’s not the happy homecoming she imagined, and instead she must go once more into the Burn to help North find his father and inherit the magic that will allow him to reverse the Burn’s hold on the kingdom of Avinea”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018009925 (print) | LCCN 2018017313 (eBook)
ISBN 9781481472043 (eBook) | ISBN 9781481472029 (hardcover)
Subjects: | CYAC: Sisters—Fiction. | Magic—Fiction. | Plague—Fiction. | Social classes—Fiction. | Fantasy.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.T383 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.1.T383 Spl 2018 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018009925