A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
<span>In this debut gothic 
novel mysterious visions, dark family secrets and a long-lost diary 
thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her 
from India. (Ages 12+)<br><br>It's 1895, and after the suicide of her 
mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows 
in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, 
guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an 
uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly 
one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young 
Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And 
what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their 
foray into the spiritual world—lead to?</span>
