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434 p New Zealand author Summary: When sixteen-year-old Canny begrudgingly joins her older step brother on a trip to research a strange coal mine disaster that happened thirty years earlier, she wanders into a nearby enchanted valley, occupied almost entirely by children who all have the same last name and who can perform a type of magic that makes things better and stronger than they already are. With the help of the alluring and somewhat threatening Ghislain Zarene, who is held hostage by a powerful, out-of-control spell for his part in that mine accident long ago, Canny starts to untangle they mysteries of the valley - only to find that its secrets are her own, too.

AWARDS:
Winner of New Zealand Post Children's Book Award: Young Adult Fiction 2014. -- Shortlisted for LIANZA Children's Book Awards: Young Adult Fiction Award 2014.