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Once There Was
Kiyash Monsef
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 
Kinder- und Jugendbücher / Jugendbücher ab 12 Jahre
Beschreibung
A New York Times bestseller! A Morris Award Finalist Impossible Creatures meets Neil Gaiman in this ';striking and heartfelt' (Kirkus Reviews) novel about an Iranian American girl who discovers that her father was secretly a veterinarian to magical creaturesand that she must take up his mantle, despite the many dangers.Once was, once wasn't. So began the stories Marjan's father told her as a little girlfables like the story of the girl who sprung a unicorn from a hunter's snare, or the nomad boy who rescued a baby shirdal. Tales of mythical beasts that filled her with curiosity and wonder. But Marjan's not a little girl anymore. In the wake of her father's sudden death, she is trying to hold it all together: her schoolwork, friendships, and keeping her dad's shoestring veterinary practice from going under. Then, one day, she receives a visitor who reveals something stunning: Marjan's father was no ordinary veterinarian. The creatures out of the stories he told her were realand he traveled the world to care for them. And now that he's gone, she must take his place. Marjan steps into a secret world hidden in plain sight, where magical creatures are bought and sold, treasured and trapped. She finds friends she never knew she neededa charming British boy who grew up with a griffon, a runaway witch seeking magic and homewhile trying to hide her double life from her old friends and classmates. The deeper Marjan gets into treating these animals, the closer she comes to finding who killed her fatherand to a shocking truth that will reawaken her sense of wonder and put humans and beasts in the gravest of danger.
