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Barnes, Jennifer. THE INHERITANCE GAMES New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2020] IL YA ISBN 9781368052405 2 booktalks |
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Booktalk #1 Imagine inheriting billions of dollars from a stranger! This is what happens to Avery Grambs when eccentric billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves her his fortune, the same one that family members were expecting to inherit. Avery and her sister move into Hawthorne House, a mansion full of riddles, secret passageways, hidden rooms, and deadly secrets. Avery is not sure who she can trust as she works with the four Hawthorne grandsons to try and solve the biggest riddle of all: why did Tobias Hawthorne leave his fortune to her? This action-packed page-turner is full of mystery, family secrets, danger, and surprising twists. (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2021-2022) Booktalk #2 High school Junior Avery Grambs has exactly one person she can rely on: herself. She works to help with the bills, keeps her grades up so that she can get into her dream college, and sleeps in her car to stay away from her sister’s boyfriend. Everything she’s got, she’s earned. Until one day, a mysterious man requests her presence at the will reading of Tobias Hawthorne, where she discovers she’s inherited Hawthorne’s entire fortune, billions of dollars -- even though she’s never even heard of him. The catch? To inherit, Avery must live for one year in Hawthorne House, a massive mansion complete with secret passageways, tunnels, and puzzles to uncover. And she won’t be there alone: she’ll be living with Hawthorne’s descendents, a family that would rather see her dead than living in the house they feel is rightfully theirs. Avery wants answers, and the only way to find them is to solve the final puzzle Hawthorne left behind. But everyone is keeping secrets, and playing the game might be Avery’s only chance at survival. (Georgia Peach Book Award, 2022) |
| SUBJECTS: Inheritance and succession -- Fiction. Wealth -- Fiction. Puzzles -- Fiction. |
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