Triskellion
Books / Paperback
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ISBN: 0763639338 / Publisher: Candlewick, May 2009
Realizing that a mysterious force has taken over the village where they are staying with their grandmother, twins Rachel and Adam begin to look into the mystery of the bees--unearthing a secret about the village and their own family.
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"First in a thrilling supernatural trilogy! “Breathless. . . . Suspenseful.”" — KIRKUS REVIEWSA sense of foreboding sets in the moment fourteen-year-old twins Rachel and Adam arrive from New York to visit their English grandmother. The station is empty, village streets are deserted, locals are hostile, and even their frail Granny Root is oddly distant. And who is the strange boy, Gabriel, who speaks to them telepathically, and what about the bees that appear to follow a mysterious force? It all seems tied up with the Triskellion — a symbol etched in chalk on the moors — and an ancient feud that keeps villagers warily apart. With a growing sense of danger, the twins must unearth a secret that has protected the village for centuries, one that reveals a shocking truth about their ancestors — and themselves.
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