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Cover of Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Kathleen Karr (2001)

SubgenreEpic Fantasy
Age groupMiddle Grade 8-12
Content ratingPG
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age10
Goodreads3.38
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Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

Trigger warnings

ManipulationDeception

Positive tags

Coming of AgeSelf-DiscoveryMystery

Heroine archetypes

Coming-of-Age Heroine

Protagonist archetypes

Coming-of-Age Protagonist

Tropes

Coming of AgeFish out of WaterHidden IdentityMentor Figure

Themes

Coming of AgeIdentitySelf-DiscoveryDeceptionFamily DynamicsFinding Purpose

Synopsis

Greer spends the summer of 1924 at a Long Island seashore mansion, where she helps her psychic mother and a sinister magician conduct seances, and unexpectedly finds new direction for her life.

Tags

Historical FantasyParanormalMystery