The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray
The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray
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Tundra Books
Annotation: Lemony Snicket meets Oscar Wilde meets Edgar Allan Poe in this exciting and scary middle-grade novel inspired by The Pic... more
Genre: [Horror fiction]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #6617529
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Tundra Books
Copyright Date: 2020
Edition Date: 2020 Release Date: 04/07/20
Pages: 322 pages
ISBN: 1-10-191930-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-10-191930-9
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2017938004
Dimensions: 21 cm.
Subject Heading:
Women painters. Fiction.
Language: English
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Horn Book

Thirteen-year-old Bryony's talent as a portrait painter shifts from precocious to threatening when her works start coming to life. As chaos envelops Victorian London, Bryony escapes the attic her uncle keeps her in to search for her missing father, Dorian Gray, making strange friends along the way. Pleasantly creepy, this novel about an intrepid orphan blends art history, classic literature, and adventure to satisfying effect.

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Horn Book
Reading Level: 5.0
Interest Level: 5-9
Lexile: 800L

Lemony Snicket meets Oscar Wilde meets Edgar Allan Poe in this exciting and scary middle-grade novel inspired by The Picture of Dorian Gray -- a family curse is unleashed!

Bryony Gray is becoming famous as a painter in London art circles. But life isn't so grand. Her uncle keeps her locked in the attic, forcing her to paint for his rich clients . . . and now her paintings are taking on a life of their own, and customers are going missing under mysterious circumstances.

When her newest painting escapes the canvas and rampages through the streets of London, Bryony digs into her family history, discovering some rather scandalous secrets her uncle has been keeping, including a deadly curse she's inherited from her missing father. Bryony has accidentally unleashed the Gray family curse, and it's spreading fast.

With a little help from the strange-but-beautiful girl next door and her paranoid brother, Bryony sets out to break the curse, dodging bloodthirsty paintings, angry mobs and her wicked uncle along the way.


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