Grade 9 Up.It's hard to be the only normal one in a family in which everyone has
a Talent that allows them to do such things as disappear, control the weather, read
the future, or turn people to stone. Tamsin is bitter that she does not have a magical
gift and dreams of the day she can move far away. So when a mysterious Scottish stranger,
Alistair, shows up at her family's bookstore and assumes that the 17-year-old is her very
Talented sister, Rowena, Tamsin jumps at the chance to help him find the family heirloom
for which he is searching. She enlists the help of her childhood friend, Gabriel, who has
recently reappeared in her life. Tamsin and Gabriel travel through time to find what
sinister Alistair wants, and in doing so they will set in motion a chain of events that
could mean the destruction of her family. Although Tamsin is a well-rounded character,
the other people in the book are fairly one-dimensional. What is lacking in character
development, though, is made up for in plot. This is an exciting book, and readers will
be captivated until the very end. With a fairly easy reading level, an exciting story,
and an edgier heroine (Tamsin drinks and smokes), this book is a good choice to hand to
older reluctant readers.

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