Line #42 Literature/SkaryChildrinAndTheCarouselOfSorrow


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3	''[[http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375868593/ref%3Dasc_df_03758685931737710/%3Ftag%3Daskcom05el-20%26creative%3D394997%26creativeASIN%3D0375868593%26linkCode%3Dasn Skary Childrin And The Carousel Of Sorrow]]'' is the first novel published by Katy Towell of WebAnimation/ChildrinrSkary fame.
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5	[[ArcNumber Twelve]] years ago, for 12 days straight, the town of [[TownWithADarkSecret Widowsbury]] suffered a [[HostileWeather terrible storm]], which tore open a [[HellGate gate through which escaped all sorts of foul, rotten things]]. Strange things and strange people were no longer welcomed in Widowsbury, for one could never be sure of what secrets waited under the surface.
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7	[[SuperSenses Adelaide]] [[LittleBitBeastly Foss]], [[SuperStrength Maggie Borland]], and [[ISeeDeadPeople Beatrice Alfred]] are known by their classmates at Widowsbury's [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors Madame Gertrude's School for Girls]] as "scary children." [[KidsAreCruel Unfairly targeted]] because of their peculiarities, the girls spend a good deal of time isolated in the school's [[SpookySilentLibrary inhospitable library]] facing detention. But when a number of people mysteriously begin to disappear in Widowsbury, the girls work together, along with [[GadgeteerGenius Steffen Weller]], son of the cook at Rudyard School for Boys, to find out who, or what, is behind the abductions.
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9	!!The novel provides examples of:
10	* [[AdultsAreUseless Most Adults Are Useless]]: Of course, it's not entirely their fault.
11	* AlphaBitch: Becky Bushard
12	* ArcNumber: 12. It's considered an unlucky number to the citizens of Widowbury. The Big Storm began on December 12, 1912 [12/12/12] and lasted twelve days, the story begins exactly twelve years later to the day, [[spoiler:Henry Fernberger II's]] hospital room is 12 and he is visited by 24 students [12x2], the clock on the sign of Lyle Zoethout's Candystand is missing the 12, no one's ever seen the Midnight (12 o'clock) train, it's bad luck to live at a [[BuffySpeak "twelvey"]] address.
13	* BadAssBookWorm: Delia Peet, the librarian. [[spoiler: She managed to free Henry Fernberger from the [[SwallowedWhole Carousel.]]]]
14	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Beatrice, as Becky soon found out. [[spoiler: She calmly reads a script calling [[AssholeVictim Becky]] ([[TeensAreMonsters who's twice her age]]) out on her behaviour while her spirit friends scare the girl.]] Even Steffan, the only other witness, is frightened of her after that.
15	* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Madame Gertrude's.
16	** [[DeanBitterman Headmistress Bitterman]]: Mrs. Miriam Merryweather.
17	** OffToBoardingSchool: Subverted, the girls' parents enrolled them at Madame Gertrude's School for Girls because they wanted them to have normal (for certain values of normal) childhoods because their work had them constantly travelling[[note]]Adelaide's parents are diseases researchers, Maggie's parents are the Strong-man and Strong-woman with a travelling circus and Beatrice's parents are 'Celebrity Morticians'.[[/note]]
18	** {{Room 101}}: Room 912 also known as the Wailing Room
19	*** SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: Happens unintentionally.
20	** SadistTeacher
21	** ScaryLibrarian: The previous ones. Subverted with Delia Peet
22	** SpookySilentLibrary
23	* [[spoiler:ChestMonster: The Carousel.]]
24	* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain
25	** AStormIsComing
26	** GraveClouds: Constant state of gloom in town and surrounding hills.
27	** HostileWeather: The Big Storm.
28	* DeadpanSnarker: Maggie, but Adelaide has her moments too.
29	* [[EmbarrassingNickname Exhasperating Nickname]]: Franken-Mag for Maggie.
30	* FreeRangeChildren
31	* GadgeteerGenius: Steffan
32	* HappilyAdopted: Beatrice. We only hear about her birth mother once. [[note]]Beatrice doesn't remember her, but apparently she moved to Australia and married a man named Gary.[[/note]]
33	* HellGate: The Storm opened one of these.
34	* [[ISeeDeadPeople I See The Deceased]]: Beatrice. She likes animal spirits (a ghost mouse by the name of Phillip is her constant companion) but the Other Ghosts (spirits of people) frighten her.
35	* KidsAreCruel
36	* MeaningfulName: Widowsbury in Pernicious Valley, surrounded by the Devil's Thimbles hills.
37	* MissingMom: Steffan's mother is never mentioned.
38	* PowerTrio: The girls fall under a few:
39	** BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: While they all have their moments as the Brains (and rather adorable in their own way), Maggie is almost always the Brawn and Adelaide and Beatrice can, at any given moment, switch places between being the Brains and being [[TheHeart the mediator]].
40	** TownGirls: [[{{Tomboy}} Maggie]] is the butch one, [[ShrinkingViolet Beatrice]] is the femme one, and Adelaide is a little bit of both.
41	** TerribleTrio: They're Mrs. Merryweather's "Trio of Trouble".
42	* {{Ruritania}}: Bukovina, where Adelaide and her parents orignate from.
43	* ShoutOut: [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood "My, what big eyes she has!"]]
44	* [[spoiler:[[ShapeShifting Shapeshifter]]: The blob that Nathan Wick befriends.]]
45	** [[spoiler: Emotion Eater: The blob, subverted that it feeds off sorrow and replaces it with happiness.]]
46	** [[spoiler: Start of Darkness: When it is forced to eat Margaret Bellhouse, causing it to need to feed off of lives.]]
47	** [[spoiler: EatenAlive / SwallowedWhole: The fates of the Carousel's victims]]
48	* ShrinkingViolet: Beatrice
49	* [[spoiler: StringyHairedGhostGirl: Margaret Bellhouse]]
50	* SuperStrength: Maggie
51	* [[spoiler: ThatManIsDead: Lyle Zoethout was Nathan Wick.]]
52	** [[spoiler:HumanoidAbomination: What Nathan Wick becomes.]]
53	* TownWithADarkSecret: Widowsbury
54	* WildWilderness: Henbane Wood
55	* [[WolfMan Werewolf Girl]]: The other students tease Adelaide about being one because of:
56	** SupernaturalGoldEyes
57	** LittleBitBeastly: Pointy ears and pointy nails
58	** SuperSenses: Hearing and smell

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