{"product_id":"the-chalk-canoe-a-cat-mccloud-book-paperback","title":"The Chalk Canoe: A Cat McCloud Book - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeidi Jean Arneson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlberta Mirais\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Cat McCloud Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e A coming-of-age thriller like never before. \u003c\/em\u003eMagical realism meets suburban gothic humor in the lakeside town of White Rock. Fish heads are nailed to the trees, a killer lurks under the muck, and the bare lips of one girl must never touch the bare lips of another. But oddball Cat McCloud falls in love with the new girl and is sucked into a maelstrom of witchcraft, time-travel, and adolescent passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDee-dee Morton, the new girl, breaks rules, concocts magic, and owns an ancient mummy. Cat is smitten. Coaxed by spellbinding Dee-dee, Cat ventures to the far edges of White Rock, finding cracks in the middle-class perfection and wildness on the far side of Little Rose Lake. Rusty barbed wire rises from the sand, a poison pen stuffs mailboxes with venom, and ancient yellowed letters of love and murder emerge from the spidery cracks, exposing the town's bloody past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ouija board warns, \u003cem\u003eSTOP MEDDLING IN WHAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND\u003c\/em\u003e. But Cat and Dee-dee dive deeper into risky adventures: shoplifting, potion brewing, taboo embraces. One hot August sleepover, between sips of liqueur and readings of Sappho, something horrific occurs down in Dee-dee's basement. As the shadow of the Midwestern winter advances, an ancient curse molders under the ice as an old beast grows ever-larger. Come summer, Cat must face the beast and undo the ancient curse--or die in the deepest waters of Little Rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Chalk Canoe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, Heidi Arneson's darkly-comic prequel to her suburban gothic thriller, \u003cem\u003eInterlocking Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e, explores in rich and luxurious prose the tangible and mythical forces at work in Cat's quest to live beyond her hilariously imaginative adolescence. Arneson's driving humor and skillful suspense propel her shy heroine into natural catastrophes, forbidden love, and the enchanted underbelly of suburbia, where death waits around every corner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A magic garden of uncanniness\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eAuthor Jon Spayde, \u003cem\u003e How to Believe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Beautifully vivid, passionate and heartbreaking\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Author Jenna Zark, \u003cem\u003eThe Beat on Ruby's Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Color me bedazzled\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eJournalist Noel Holston\u003cem\u003e, Like the Dew\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Heidi Arneson's prose is graphic and striking. She builds suspense, and explores sexuality and standards of normality with incisive humor, revealing the narrator Cat's most secret thoughts and desires, and tackling serious teenage issues.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eTessa Bridal, Author, \u003cem\u003eThe Tree of Red Stars and River of Painted Birds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 172\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43159106027583,"sku":"9780997477818","price":19.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/jmH6p4SEPM9780997477818.webp?v=1776995408","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-chalk-canoe-a-cat-mccloud-book-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}