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The Crystal Swan
The Crystal Swan
The Crystal Swan
Suzan Tanner
No one would suspect that a mysterious adventure could start in a nursing home, but that is precisely what happened to thirteen-year old Leah Ward. Leah wanted to spend time with her friends. The last thing on her mind that fateful day was to go with her mother on a visit to Shady Springs rest home. A reluctant teenager went with her mother and was given an object that would change the way she saw the world forever. The Crystal Swan is a part mystery and part adventure. It follows the story of a thirteen-year old girl who receives an unusual gift. The gift changes the course of the end of one school year through the beginning of another. Follow along with Leah and discover the mystery of, The Crystal Swan.

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Adventure
  • Fiction
  • Mystery

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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Thirteen year old Leah Ward has been having a great school year, getting ready for a school dance and practicing for her upcoming baseball games. Then one day her mother asks Leah to come with her to the Shady Springs old folks home to help pass out food baskets. Leah makes up every excuse possible, but her mother forces her to go or else she will be grounded. Once they get to Shady Springs Leah is very agitated, and refuses to even talk to any of the old people living at Shady Springs. When they come down to the last room occupied by a mysterious old lady named Mrs.

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"The Crystal Swan" by Suzan Tanner McCoury is an appropriate novel for young readers. The plot revolves around thirteen-year-old Leah. Leah goes to a nursing homes against her wishes to help out her mother volunteer. Not fond of elderly persons, Leah's sour disposition is clear to those at the nursing home. Speaking to the elderly, Leah is very incorrigible. Before she finally leaves, one older woman gives her a crystal swan. Shortly thereafter, the girl has disturbing "episodes," which are really flashbacks of elderly people of when they were young.

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