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Discover your inner child once again in Weave a Circle Round, a debut fantasy adventure for fans of Madeleine L'Engle, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. L. Konigsburg. Now nominated as a finalist for the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Novel!When the unexpected moves in next door, anything can happen in Weave a Circle Round, Kari Maaren's debut in this YA-friendly fantasy adventure.Freddy doesn't want people to think she's weird. Her family makes that difficult, though: her deaf stepbrother Roland's a major geek, and her genius little sister Mel's training to be the next Sherlock Holmes. All Freddy wants is to survive high school.Then two extremely odd neighbors move in next door.Cuerva Lachance and Josiah definitely aren't normal. Neither is their house, which defies the laws of physics. Neither is Freddy's situation, when she suddenly finds herself stuck thousands of years in the past with her very, very weird neighbors. And that's only the beginning."I adored this brilliant book from start to finish. It left me reeling with delight and I can't wait for the rest of the world to get as lost in its pages as I was." -- Charles de Lint"I'd have loved this book when I was twelve, and I love it now." -- Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy-Award winning author Jo Walton



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Kari Maaren

Kari Maaren is a Toronto writer whose first novel, WEAVE A CIRCLE ROUND, was released in 2017. WEAVE A CIRCLE ROUND is a sort of old-fashioned kids' fantasy about a girl named Freddy whose attempts to make it through high school unnoticed are derailed by a pair of bizarre new neighbours and their unfortunate tendency to disrupt the laws of physics. Some fun descriptions from critics are: "[has] the potential to become a timeless classic" (Kirkus) , "an ambitious, intricate, joyful coming-of-age tale" (Publishers Weekly) , "wildly imaginative" (School Library Journal) , and "audaciously realistic fantasy" (The Globe and Mail) .

Maaren is just getting started on her writing career, but she has also been a cartoonist for a while. She has a completed webcomic, WEST OF BATHURST, and a continuing one, IT NEVER RAINS. WEST OF BATHURST is available as a ridiculously expensive print collection, but it's also still online for free, so that's probably the way to go. Maaren has, as well, produced a couple of independent albums, BEOWULF PULLED MY ARM OFF and EVERYBODY HATES ELVES. The titles tell you pretty much all you need to know about those.

When she is not working frantically on her second novel or fighting valiantly with her computer, which hates her, Maaren teaches undergraduate English classes at Ryerson University.



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