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Three Black Swans by Caroline B. Cooney

Three Black Swans

Caroline B. Cooney

Random House Children's Books · Paperback · March 27, 2012

Lives are in the balance in bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney’s newest young adult thriller, Three Black Swans.

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Who it’s for
A tense YA thriller pairs intimate family questions with secrets that unsettle more than one household.
Genres
YA Adoption Stories, Thrillers & Suspense, YA Mysteries
Published
Random House Children's Books, March 27, 2012

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About this book

Lives are in the balance in bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney’s newest young adult thriller, Three Black Swans. Missy and her cousin Claire are best friends who finish each other’s sentences and practically read each other’s minds. It’s an eerie connection—so eerie that Missy has questions she wants to put to her parents. But she’s afraid to ask. So when Missy hears an expert discussing newborn babies on the radio, it makes her wonder about her family.

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Missy just can’t let go of those nagging questions, and decides to use a school project about scientific hoaxes to try to uncover the answers. She enlists Claire to help. As part of the project the girls perform a dramatic scene that is captured on video at school. After the video is posted on YouTube, Missy and Claire realize that they’ve opened Pandora’s box and much more than they ever imagined has come out. Not only are their identities called into question, but so is the future of everyone involved. In this riveting, heartrending story by thriller author Caroline B. Cooney, the truth changes the lives of three families—as the bonds of blood must withstand the strains of long-hidden secrets that are at last revealed.

Secrets Under Strain

A tense YA thriller pairs intimate family questions with secrets that unsettle more than one household.

Come here for

  • Family bonds, eerie closeness, and secrets that resist staying buried
  • A mystery where questions about identity reach beyond one family

Expect

  • An unsettling connection between cousins and questions that keep nagging
  • A school project that brings unexpected consequences into the open

Where it sits

YA Adoption Stories71%
YA Mysteries69%
Thrillers & Suspense49%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Adoption Stories
  • YA Stories About Girls & Women
  • YA Mysteries
Authors
Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
March 27, 2012
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
YA Adoption Stories