A Corner of White (The Colors of Madeleine, Book 1) (Volume 1) - Couverture rigide

From THE COLORS OF MADELEINE #1: A CORNER OF WHITE

She leaned her bike against a wall and saw it again -- that fine line of white along the seam of the parking meter.
She tried to pull it out with her fingertips but it was too deeply embedded. By holding two fingernails, one above and one below, she managed to grasp the edge of the paper and slowly draw it out.
It was a thin piece of paper, folded in half.
She unfolded it and read:

Help me!
I am being held against my will!

She laughed aloud, looking at the base of the parking meter: the split concrete.
"You're trying to escape," she said, then glanced around to check that nobody had seen her talking to a parking meter. The street was empty.
It was growing dark, everything turning shades of grey.
The paper in the palm of her hand made her shudder suddenly.
I am being held against my will!
What if it was real? A message from a stranger who was trapped?
Strange place to put it, though, she thought, and smiled again.
I am being held against my will.
On the darkening path, she took paper from her backpack, and she wrote a reply to the note.
She folded it and slid it into the parking meter until it too was nothing but a fine white line.
Then she rode away.

Praise for A Corner of White:

A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
A Horn Book Fanfare Book

"Jaclyn Moriarty makes me laugh, hysterically -- and cry, unexpectedly... Startlingly original fantasy." -- E. Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars

"A marvelous novel -- in every sense of the word... A Corner of White slips through a previously unnoticed crack in the reader's heart and changes everything." -- Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches

* "Quirky, charming, funny, sad: another winner from this always-surprising author." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

* "Irresistible characters help readers navigate a tantalizingly complex plot that will leave them eagerly awaiting the next book." -- Horn Book, starred review

* "In this lovely fantasy... mysteries abound." -- School Library Journal, starred review

* "[A] genre-blending feat of stylistic energy... The plotting is as innovative and riveting as the world-making." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review