Everything Is Poison

Everything Is Poison

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Publisher's Synopsis

A Blood Water Paint-style historical YA in prose and verse from New York Times bestselling author Joy McCullough.

Early 17th-Century Rome
For as long as she can remember, Carmela Tofana has desperately wanted one thing: to be a part of La Tofana's, her mother's apothecary in Campo Marzio, Rome. When she finally turns sixteen, she's allowed into the inner sanctum: the workroom where her mother and two assistants craft renowned remedies for their customers. But for every sweet-smelling flower extract in the workroom, there's another potion requiring darker ingredients. And then there's Aqua Tofana, the apothecary's remedy of last resort. In all Carmela's years of wishing to follow in her mother's footsteps, she never realized one tiny vial could be the death of them all. 

Everything Is Poison is a story of a deadly secret hiding in plain sight and of the women who risk everything to provide care for those with nowhere else to turn.

Book information

ISBN: 9780593855874
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Imprint: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 578g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 29mm