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cbaker
Since: Nov, 2015
I read this book series in Middle school. I cant really remember much, but I know it was written by a woman who had many other books- mostly for tweens, but this was aimed at a slightly older crowd. The main character is a girl who lives on an island, and travels to the mainland to stay with a woman who owns a boarding house, where other kids from the Island also live so they can attend school. I remember a random detail- about a long, twisted staircase that the characters had trouble with, and the woman who they lived trying to make people think that the main character is crazy/ has a weird thing for fire. I've been struggling to find it for years!