Strange Toys
Pet is her name. At nine, she is struggling to protect her family from the horrors predicted in her strange older sister's book of secrets horrors that indeed come true. At sixteen, Pet is hunting down her older sister to wreak vengeance or something else. At thirty, Pet attains strength and power enough to protect her from the present but not from her sister's raging past.
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- Corgi
- Year
- 1987
- ISBN-13
- 9780552135801
- Genre
- FantasyHorror
- Topics
- Sisterhood and family traumaMagic and prophecyComing of age
Awards
- Philip K. Dick AwardWon(1988)
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy NovelShortlisted(1988)
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