Jacksonville Public Library

Mirror girls, Kelly McWilliams

eng

illustrations

no index present

Ages 14 & up, Little, Brown and Company

fiction

Mirror girls

1243910727

Kelly McWilliams

Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.2, 9, 9, 515133

"As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were separated after the murder of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the civil rights movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia. Magnolia knows nothing of her Black heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears -- the sign of a terrible curse. Meanwhile, Charlie's beloved grandmother falls ill. Her final wish is to be buried back home in Georgia -- and, unbeknownst to Charlie, to see her long-lost granddaughter, Magnolia, one last time. So Charlie travels into the Jim Crow South, confronting the land of her worst nightmares. The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, where ghosts linger and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn't be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors' deadly curse -- and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land. <i>Mirror Girls</i> is a thrilling gothic horror that tackles the realities of racism, passing, and the Jim Crow South. Perfect for young fans of <i>Lovecraft Country</i> and <i>The Vanishing Half</i>. --Book jacket

adolescent