A whole lot of Brooklyn is like that now-but not Vassa’s working-class neighborhood. Inspired by the Russian folktale Vassilissa the Beautiful and Sarah Porter’s years of experience teaching creative writing to New York City students, Vassa in the Night weaves a dark yet hopeful tale about a young girl’s search for home, love, and belonging.In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, the fashionable people put on cute shoes, go to parties in warehouses, drink on rooftops at sunset, and tell themselves they’ve arrived. And in The Witch Must Burn, a young maid is about to discover that a witch who says shes Good might be the most dangerous kind of Wicked. SARAH PORTER is a writer, artist, and freelance teacher who lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two cats. When she meets a mysterious, handsome new orderly and dreams about a strange twisted tree she realizes she must escape and figure out who she really is. You can find her on twitter and instagram. Deep down, she knows she's not crazy and doesn't belong there. In Stealing Snow, seventeen-year-old Snow has spent the majority of her life within the walls of the Whittaker Institute, a high security mental hospital in upstate New York. She is a graduate of Columbia University and currently lives in New York City. DANIELLE PAIGE is the New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die, its upcoming sequel The Wicked Will Rise. In addition to writing young adult books, she works in the television industry, where she's received a Writers Guild of America Award and was nominated for several Daytime Emmys.
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