The Family Fortuna (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763692353)

Lindsay Eagar's dazzling YA debut welcomes us backstage at the Family Fortuna circus, where wonders lie in wait to steal your breath away. You won't believe your eyes!

Beaked. Feathered. Monstrous. Avita was born to be a star. Her tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. She's the most lucrative circus act from Texas to Tacoma, the crown jewel of the Family Fortuna, and Avita feeds on the shrieks, the gasps, the fear. But when a handsome young artist arrives to create posters of the performers, she's appalled by his rendering of Bird Girl. Is that all he sees? A hideous monster--all sharp beak and razor teeth, obsidian eyes and ruffled feathers? Determined to be more, Avita devises a plan to snatch freedom out from under the greased mustache of her charismatic father, the domineering proprietor and ringmaster. But will their fragile circus family survive the showdown she has in mind? By turns delightful and disturbing, bawdy and breathtaking, horrific and heartfelt, this electric and exquisitely crafted story about a family like no other challenges our every notion of what it means to be different--subject to an earful of screams--and to step out of the shadows and shine anyway.

Author: Lindsay Eagar
ISBN-10: 0763692352
ISBN-13: 9780763692353
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2023
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.67w x 1.57d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 01/23/2023
Booklist 03/01/2023 pg. 52
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2023 - Book Of Special Distinction