The spirit bares its teeth / Andrew Joseph White.
| Author/creator | White, Andrew Joseph author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | 381 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | "London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he'll be married by the end of the year. It doesn't matter that he's needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness -- a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness -- and shipped away to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanitorium. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. When the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas to help, he decides to reach into Braxton's innards and expose its guts to the world -- if the school doesn't break him first." -- Jacket flap. |
| Interest age level | Ages 14 and up |
| Interest grade level | Grades 10-12 |
| Awards note | Stonewall Honor Book in Young Adult Literature, 2024 |
| Genre/form | Gothic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Horror fiction. |
| Genre/form | Novels. |
| Genre/form | LGBTQ+ fiction. |
| Genre/form | LGBTQ+ horror fiction. |
| Genre/form | Transgender fiction. |
| Genre/form | Transgender horror fiction. |
| Genre/form | Transgender fiction. |
| Genre/form | Ghost stories. |
| Genre/form | School fiction. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| Genre/form | Gothic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Horror fiction. |
| Genre/form | Novels. |
| LCCN | 2023020823 |
| ISBN | 9781682636114 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1682636119 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |