"Because stories are everything."
-Augustine
Jane O'Reilly Children's Author
The Secret of Goldenrod
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When Trina and her father move into Goldenrod, an abandoned Victorian mansion, Trina hopes she will finally have a place to call home--and a chance to make friends at her new school. But school doesn't go as planned, and Goldenrod might be haunted.
Then Trina discovers Augustine, a tiny--and very unusual--porcelain doll that belonged to the little girl who lived at Goldenrod a century ago. With help from Augustine, Trina realizes Goldenrod is trying to tell her an important secret, one that may just change her life.
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Read the starred review in Kirkus Reviews !
A bewitching and beautiful story. . . . Like the mysterious mansion at the heart of the book, Jane O'Reilly's writing is magical." --Anne Ursu, author of Breadcrumbs and The Real Boy
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The Secret of Goldenrod is replete with elements of a children's classic: yearning, solitude, hope, friendship, and most of all, magic. An utterly dear book. --Jane St. Anthony, author of Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart