The Seven Magpies by Hughes, Monica - 1996

Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996. 148 pp, 8 5/8" H. "Britain has just declared war on Germany and (Maureen's) father has been sent to the Front, where casualties are heavy. Her mother is trooping off eagerly - too eagerly, (she) thinks - to London 'to help with the war effort'. And Maureen is being shipped off to the stuffy-sounding Logan Academy for Young Ladies, a remote but supposedly safe boarding school in the Scottish Highlands. The girls at the school are just as Maureen expects: cold and cliquish, completely cowed by their cruel ringleader, Kathleen. But there's also something weird about these girls, something sinister. Why do they slip away in the middle of the night, one by one, to visit the woods surrounding the school? What's their secret society, called the Seven Magpies, all about - and why does it make them seem so nervous? It isn't until Maureen herself falls under the spell of a strange stone, a stone that compels her to leave it offerings of food,… Read More

Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996. 148 pp, 8 5/8" H. "Britain has just declared war on Germany and (Maureen's) father has been sent to the Front, where casualties are heavy. Her mother is trooping off eagerly - too eagerly, (she) thinks - to London 'to help with the war effort'. And Maureen is being shipped off to the stuffy-sounding Logan Academy for Young Ladies, a remote but supposedly safe boarding school in the Scottish Highlands. The girls at the school are just as Maureen expects: cold and cliquish, completely cowed by their cruel ringleader, Kathleen. But there's also something weird about these girls, something sinister. Why do they slip away in the middle of the night, one by one, to visit the woods surrounding the school? What's their secret society, called the Seven Magpies, all about - and why does it make them seem so nervous? It isn't until Maureen herself falls under the spell of a strange stone, a stone that compels her to leave it offerings of food,… Read More

Scarborough, ON, Canada: HarperCollins Canada, Limited, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Jacket has light wear.

Toronto: Harper Collins. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002245493 . 148 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in paper-covered boards. A little light soil to top edge of text block. Otherwise, fine. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket has a little edge wear and is lightly shelf rubbed. Fourteen year old Maureen Frazier is sent to a boarding school in the Scottish highlands as Britain enters the Second World War. .