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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Georgie

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* ClosedCircle: [[spoiler:Meddy is tethered to the house, and turns into smoke if she tries to step off the property. The sequel reveals same goes for her father and the surrounding woods.]]



* InvisibleToNormals: [[spoiler:Meddy can only be seen by people she allows to see her, or already know about her.]]



* ChekhovsGun: Lizzie's burnt stollen loaves. [[spoiler:Mrs. Kirkegrim hid her stolen keys in the dough, then turned up the oven so the loaves would be thrown out and she could collect them in a quick getaway.]]
* DismantledMacguffin: When Clem and Georgie’s Violet Cross relics go missing, Milo and Meddy find half of them taken apart and hidden in the bathroom.
* EyeMotifs: The two stories the Waits tell both feature characters with hollow eyes.
* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Violet Cross didn't go out in a battle on the Skidwrack. She's been living in hiding with her family in Liberty.]]



* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: Clem and Georgie are total fangirls for folk hero outlaw Violet Cross. [[spoiler:They're on the constant brink of fainting when they meet her in person.]]
* {{Macguffin}}: Violet Cross' derrotero, a mysterious map said to reveal safe passages through the treacherous River Skidwrack.
* OppositesAttract: Georgie the cat burglar hits it off with Emmett [[spoiler:the customs agent]].



* RealAfterAll: [[spoiler:Almost immediately after Milo learns Doc Holystone's ghost is a fake, he manages to summon the real Doc ''and'' the ghostly hobbyhorse from Lucky's story.]]
* RelativelyFlimsyExcuse: Inverted; [[spoiler:Mr. Hakelbarend, Mrs. Kirkegrim and Marzanna are father, mother and child pretending to be acquaintances.]]



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* SternChaseSheepInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Mrs. Kirkegrim ''is'' a thief, but she didn’t come to Greenglass with violent intentions. She just wanted to steal back her old seafaring equipment, and bestow one to her daughter as an heirloom.]]
* SoulJar: Exploited; [[spoiler:Milo gets the idea to use Meddy's RPG figurine as one so she can leave the house and see her father.]]
* SternChase: Mr. Hakelbarend's folktale about Liberty’s patron saint is centred around one.
* ThatPoorPlant: A dying poinsettia in the parlour is a clue in Milo and Meddy's investigation. [[spoiler:The fact it was healthy the day before makes them realize Mr. Larven faked his own poisoning by dumping copious glasses of spiked punch in the pot.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler:Mrs. Kirkegrim, aka infamous thief Cantlebone, aka the supposedly late Violet Cross.]]

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* AllThatGlitters: Occurs in the climax; De Cary Vinge, an amateur historian [[spoiler:or rather a customs agent with a grudge]], comes to the inn hoping to find legendary smuggler Doc Holystone's lost treasure. Milo finds the treasure and [[spoiler:it's a tabletop game figurine Doc made for his daughter Addie.]]



* HappilyAdopted: Milo is an adopted kid of Chinese ethnicity, whose parents are white. It's mostly a non-issue.

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* FriendlyRivalry: Georgie and Clem. Both are professional thieves that met through their work, but any hostility between them comes off as sisterly ribbing.
* HappilyAdopted: Milo is an adopted kid of Chinese ethnicity, whose parents are white. It's Aside from wondering about his birth parents and some feelings of guilt from it, it's mostly a non-issue.



* LoveTriangle: Georgie and Clem both love the same man. [[spoiler:In the end, Clem wins.]]

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* LoveTriangle: Georgie and Clem both love the same man.man, Owen. [[spoiler:In the end, Clem wins.]]

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A 2014 young adult novel by Kate Milford. HappilyAdopted 12-year-old Milo is home for winter break, and is hoping for a relaxing time with his parents. But when your parents run an old inn, famous for having been a hideout of one of the greatest smugglers of all time, with [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic mysterious stained glass windows]] in every wall, and possible hidden treasure, and then an assorted group of smugglers, scholars, and misfits show up as inn guests, all bets on a quiet holiday are off.

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A Greenglass House is a 2014 young adult novel by Kate Milford. HappilyAdopted 12-year-old Milo is home for winter break, and is hoping for a relaxing time with his parents. But when your parents run an old inn, famous for having been a hideout of one of the greatest smugglers of all time, with [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic mysterious stained glass windows]] in every wall, and possible hidden treasure, and then an assorted group of smugglers, scholars, and misfits show up as inn guests, all bets on a quiet holiday are off.



* OutlawTown: The book's setting, the city of Nagspeake, is this to a T, with a heaping helping of CityOfAdventure.
* ThievesGuild



* FictionalCountry: It's implied that the town of Nagspeake is its own sovereign state, somewhere between the United States and Canada. It's definitely not a part of the U.S., as Georgie refers to an American quarter as "foreign currency."

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* FictionalCountry: It's implied that the town of Nagspeake is its own [[LandofOneCity sovereign state, state]], somewhere between the United States and Canada. It's definitely not a part of the U.S., as Georgie refers to an American quarter as "foreign currency.""
* OutlawTown: The Asylum is like an Outlaw Town within the larger Outlaw Town of Nagspeake, in that it provides shelter for criminals on the run.


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* BadassBookworm



* ClassyCatBurglar: Clem is this, but played with. She IS a cat burglar, but she's not vampy, she's an athletic, red-haired GenkiGirl.



* TriangRelations: Type 3.
* LoveTriangle: Georgie and Clem both love the same man. [[spoiler:In the end, Clem wins.]]



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* FictionalCountryFictionalCountry: It's implied that the town of Nagspeake is its own sovereign state, somewhere between the United States and Canada. It's definitely not a part of the U.S., as Georgie refers to an American quarter as "foreign currency."

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* ScoobyDooHoax: [[spoiler:Turns out the ghost of Doc Holystone was a man trying to trick Milo.]]

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* ScoobyDooHoax: [[spoiler:Turns out the ghost of Doc Holystone was a man trying to trick Milo.]]]]
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!!The books provide examples of the following tropes...



!!The books provide examples of the following tropes...



* DeadAllAlong: [[Meddy, a.k.a. Addie Whitcher, daughter of Doc Holystone.]]

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* DeadAllAlong: [[Meddy, [[spoiler:Meddy, a.k.a. Addie Whitcher, daughter of Doc Holystone.]]
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Starting this page for the first time! Please contribute if you have anything, it's been a year since I've read the two Greenglass House books and I'm likely forgetting everything.

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[[caption-width-right:350:From the website of Jaime Zollars]]

A 2014 young adult novel by Kate Milford. HappilyAdopted 12-year-old Milo is home for winter break, and is hoping for a relaxing time with his parents. But when your parents run an old inn, famous for having been a hideout of one of the greatest smugglers of all time, with [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic mysterious stained glass windows]] in every wall, and possible hidden treasure, and then an assorted group of smugglers, scholars, and misfits show up as inn guests, all bets on a quiet holiday are off.

Milo meets the inn's cook's daughter for the first time, a girl his age named Meddy, and they make a game of figuring out the guests' secrets. Meddy plays a D&D-like game called Odd Trails, and she and Milo create characters to roleplay as, which also helps Milo get over his shyness and anxiety.

Has a direct sequel, Ghosts of Greenglass House, and a spiritual prequel of sorts, The Left-Handed Fate, with another prequel, Bluecrowne, being released in late 2018.

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!!The books provide examples of the following tropes...
[[folder:Greenglass House]]
*BigFancyHouse: Greenglass House itself
*DeadAllAlong: [[Meddy, a.k.a. Addie Whitcher, daughter of Doc Holystone.]]
*HappilyAdopted: Milo is an adopted kid of Chinese ethnicity, whose parents are white. It's mostly a non-issue.
*YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Georgie

[[folder:Ghosts of Greenglass House]]
*FictionalCountry
*ScoobyDooHoax: [[spoiler:Turns out the ghost of Doc Holystone was a man trying to trick Milo.]]

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