Full name: A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama

Author: Laura Amy Schlitz Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Young adult, Fiction, Mystery, Children, Fantasy, Paranormal, Supernatural Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780763629304 9780763638122 0763629308 0763638129

Maud Flynn is known at the orphanage for her impertinence, so when the charming Miss Hyacinth and her sister choose Maud to take home with them, the girl is as baffled as anyone. It seems the sisters need Maud to help stage elaborate seances for bereaved, wealthy patrons. As Maud is drawn deeper into the deception, playing her role as a "secret child," she is torn between her need to please and her growing conscience - until a shocking betrayal makes clear just how heartless her so-called guardians are. Filled with tantalizing details of turn-of-the-century spiritualism and page-turning suspense, this lively historical novel features a winning heroine whom readers will not soon forget. Similar books: Gib Rides Home by Zilpha Keatley Snyder A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon The Mark of the Horse Lord by Rosemary Sutcliff Devil-in-the-Fog by Leon Garfield Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine Sun Horse, Moon Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff In The Face of Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hendry The Printer's Devil by Paul Bajoria The Witch's Brat by Rosemary Sutcliff A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff Of Nightingales That Weep by Katherine Paterson Outcast by Rosemary Sutcliff The Night Fairy by Laura Amy Schlitz Witch Child by Celia Rees Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator by Jennifer Allison The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz The Seer of Shadows by Avi