In the Serpent's Coils by Tiffany Trent
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Awards
2001  Mark Twain Award  Nominee/Honoree  2001  Sunshine State Young Reader's Book Award  Nominee/Honoree  2002  Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award  Nominee/Honoree  2002  Iowa Children's Choice Award  Nominee/Honoree
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
After the death of her parents in the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Corrine is sent to reform school in Culpeper, Virginia, where she discovers a sinister plot involving a race of faeries and the disappearance of some of the students. Fairies can be downright dangerous! In the Serpent's Coilsmarks the debut ofHallowmere, a dark, edgy historical fantasy series that teens won't be able to put down! Ever since her parents died in the Civil War, Corrine's dreams have been filled with fairies warning her of impending peril. When she's sent to live at Falston Manor, she thinks she's escaped the danger stalking her. Instead the dreams grow stronger, just as girls begin disappearing from school. This debut novel in the Hallowmere series immerses the reader in a dreamy, sinister and complicated world of fey. Seven rathstones prevent the vampiric Unhallowed Fey from breaching the seal between Fey raths and the mortal world. The Unhallowed will do anything to get the stones, which will give them power to destroy the Hallowed Fey and regain dominion over humanity - and the only ones standing in the way of the overwhelming power of the Unhallowed is a group of teenaged girls. IN THE SERPENT'S COILS marks the debut of Hallowmere, a dark, edgy historical fantasy series that teens won't be able to put down! Ever since her parents died in the Civil War, Corrine's dreams have been filled with fairies warning her of impending peril. When she's sent to live at Falston Manor, she thinks she's escaped the danger stalking her. Instead the dreams grow stronger, just as girls begin disappearing from school.