VERDIGRIS DEEP; Frances Hardinge; London: Macmillan, 2007; Young Adult; 328pp.Three friends miss their bus and need money they don't have to catch a different one or they will be in deep trouble at home. Josh, the cool older guy, drops down into a wishing well to fish out coins for the bus, with wildly unexpected consequences. Ryan, Chelle, and Josh suddenly find themselves endowed with creepy powers apparently designed to help them grant wishes to the true owners of the coins. But what happens if the stated wish is hiding a deeper, maybe even subconscious wish? Ryan and his friends soon find themselves over their heads (in more ways than one) in this ingenious, funny, often truly frightening tale.
LW
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