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• Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2013)
• Sunburst Award for Young Adult (2013)
• William C. Morris YA Debut Award (2013)
• Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2014)
• Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2013)
• The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky (2014)
• Lincoln Award Nominee (2015)
• Andre Norton Award Nominee (2012)
• Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee (2014)
• The Kitschies Nominee for Golden Tentacle (Debut) (2012)
• CYBILS Award for Fantasy & Science Fiction (Young Adult) (2012)
• Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy (2013)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2012)
• Carnegie Medal Nominee (2013)
• Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize Nominee (2013)
• The Inky Awards Shortlist for Silver Inky (2014)
• Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera perteneciente a saga (2015)

Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.Four decades of peace have done little to ease the mistrust between humans and dragons in the kingdom of Goredd. Folding themselves into human shape, dragons attend court as ambassadors, and lend their rational, mathematical minds to universities as scholars and teachers. As the treaty's anniversary draws near, however, tensions are high.Seraphina Dombegh has reason to fear both sides. An unusually gifted musician, she joins the court just as a member of the royal family is murdered—in suspiciously draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the investigation, partnering with the captain of the Queen's Guard, the dangerously perceptive Prince Lucian Kiggs. While they begin to uncover hints of a sinister plot to destroy the peace, Seraphina struggles to protect her own secret, the secret behind her musical gift, one so terrible that its discovery could mean her very life.In her exquisitely written fantasy debut, Rachel Hartman creates a rich, complex, and utterly original world. Seraphina's tortuous journey to self-acceptance is one readers will remember long after they've turned the final page.

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