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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Annelie Geissler
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Children’s, Teenage & Educational

THE ISLE OF EVER

Jen Calonita

Bestselling and beloved author Jen Calonita delivers the first in a brand new middle grade series featuring a girl who will inherit a mysterious fortune if she can break a centuries-old curse.

Days after her twelfth birthday, Everly "Benny" Benedict learns she's the
heir to a fortune! But to collect the inheritance, she first has to playand
wina game. Following clues that her ancestor left, Benny must locate a
small island that vanished long ago, according to legend.
She has only two weeks to play the game and find the island. If she's
successful, she'll break a two-hundred-year-old curse. If she fails, the
fortune will be forfeited. And if she's not careful, she'll cross paths with
someone else who is after the island's secrets, and who will stop at nothing
to get them. Because, as it turns out, there's far more than a fortune at
stake.

Jen Calonita is the New York Times bestselling author of the The Retake, Fairy Tale Reform School series, Secrets of My Hollywood Life as well as several books in the Twisted Tale series. She lives in New York with her husband and two boys.

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Book Published 2025-03-04 by Sourcebooks Young Readers

Comments

An] intriguing mystery.Calonita places red herrings and subtle clues throughout, deftly connecting past with present."

Calonita leaves us breathless as Benny races to save the day and her family. Young readers will love it!

The pacing is excellent, the character development enticing, and the finale positively nail-biting.

This book has everything: An engaging young protagonist, mystery, adventure, danger, a strange inheritance, a treasure hunt, pirates, a two-hundred year old curse and a lost island. What an incredibly fun read. I couldn't put it down!

[An] atmospheric fantasy ride.

A nail-biter of a novel for readers who like their mysteries with a touch of magic.

An engaging, puzzle-centered page-turner.

The Isle of Ever is a gripping game and grand adventure. A treasure hunt filled with riddles, clues, an ancient curse, and a main character you'll be cheering for all the way to the final page. I loved it!

Buckle up for an adventure-mystery that will keep you guessing till the last page, then begging for a sequel immediately! Calonita's Isle of Ever cleverly follows a spunky present day 12-year-old heroine and an equally bold 12-year-old ancestor two hundred years in the past. Using diary entries, articles, and other fun devices, she weaves a story that allows the reader to solve the mystery along with the books' characters. Throw in a cursed treasure, a pirate, and an atmospheric magical island and you're bound to find readers up well past their bedtime.

An entertaining, genre-blending story that incorporates politics, climate crises, history, pirates, and magic and introduces a tenacious and thoughtful heroine. Readers will be in Benny's corner from the very beginning of the book, and will have fun trying to solve the mystery right alongside her and her new friends.