Working as a 12-year-old maid to an old woman in a small village, her life's not great but it could be worse. Orphan Zita Brydgeborn has grown up thinking she's alone in the world. Not rating a book doesn't mean I *didn't* love it, but five stars - which is pretty much the only rating I use - means I really, really did.)Ī cross between a witchy coming-of-age, a haunted house mystery, and an undead adventure. (Note about my reviews: I use Goodreads to keep track of the books I read, and to rave about books I love. His other books have been named a VOYA Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, a New York Times Editor's Choice, a New York Public Library's 100 titles for reading and sharing, and have been selected multiple times for the Junior Library Guild. His latest book, CINDERS AND SPARROWS is a Bank Street Best Book of the Year and a Golden Dome Award finalist. He's the author of several books for young readers, including his debut, THE PECULIAR, which was an international bestseller, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and was translated into eight languages. He's lived in Tokyo, Prague, and Berlin, and now divides his time between Zürich and a small town on the Dutch border. Stefan Bachmann was born in Colorado and spent of most of his childhood in Switzerland, where he graduated from the Zürich University of Arts with degrees in musical composition and theory.

Cinders & Sparrows by Stefan Bachmann