# The Sisters of Straygarden Place - Hardcover

by **Hayley Chewins** (Author)

**A riveting middle-grade fantasy about sibling bonds, enchanted houses, and encroaching wildness, lyrically told in eerily beautiful prose**

_The grass grew taller than the house itself, surrounding it on all sides. It stuffed the keyholes and scraped against the roof. It shook the walls and made paintings shiver._

Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and grown up and played a guessing game: _Think of an animal, think of a place. Think of a person, think of a face._ Until one day, when the eldest, fourteen-year-old Winnow, does the unthinkable and goes outside into the grass, and everything twelve-year-old Mayhap thought she knew about her home, her family, and even herself starts to unravel. With luscious, vivid prose, poet and author Hayley Chewins transports readers to a house where beloved little dogs crawl into their owners' minds to sleep, sick girls turn silver, and anything can be stolen--even laughter and silence.

### Author Biography

**Hayley Chewins** is a poet and the author of _The Turnaway Girls_, in which she "deftly reveals a tapestry of magic, power, and rebellion thread by ethereal thread," said _Kirkus Reviews_ in a starred review_._ She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, in a house full of books, and now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, with her husband and her poodle.

**Number of Pages:** 208

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** October 13, 2020

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Sisters of Straygarden Place

**Interest Level:** Middle Grades, 4-8

**Reading Level:** 5

**Point Value:** 5

## Details

- **Price:** 16.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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