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The Pearl Thief
The Pearl Thief | Elizabeth Wein
Before Verity . . . there was Julie. When fifteen-year-old Julia Beaufort-Stuart wakes up in the hospital, she knows the lazy summer break she'd imagined won't be exactly what she anticipated. And once she returns to her grandfather's estate, a bit banged up but alive, she begins to realize that her injury might not have been an accident. One of her family's employees is missing, and he disappeared on the very same day she landed in the hospital. Desperate to figure out what happened, she befriends Euan McEwen, the Scots Traveller boy who found her when she was injured, and his standoffish sister Ellen. As Julie grows closer to this family, she experiences some of the prejudices they've grown used to firsthand, a stark contrast to her own upbringing, and finds herself exploring thrilling new experiences that have nothing to do with a missing-person investigation. Her memory of that day returns to her in pieces, and when a body is discovered, her new friends are caught in the crosshairs of long-held biases about Travellers. Julie must get to the bottom of the mystery in order to keep them from being framed for the crime. This exhilarating coming-of-age story, a prequel to the Printz Honor Book Code Name Verity, returns to a beloved character just before she first takes flight.
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kissmehardy
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I LOVE JULIE BEAUFORT-STUART SO MUCH. 😭😭😭 Oh, what a perfect prequel. Establishes so much of the Julie we know and love from CNV, but also a cracking good mystery. #yalit #historicalfiction

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DebinHawaii
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It's a gray & rainy day, perfect for sleeping in, then some #audiosouping 🍲I like this book but I am finding myself content to just listen to it on Sundays when I make soup. Maybe it picks up as the story unfolds? This is Ina Garten's Lentil Vegetable Soup & it smells heavenly.. The finished product will be lunch & a blog post for #soupersundays later.

SassyBookworm Looks yummy!! 😋🍵 6y
BethFishReads Ina is the best 6y
AmyG @BethFishReads Agree. In my next life I am going to be adopted by her and Jeffrey. (edited) 6y
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BethFishReads @AmyG wouldn‘t that be the best? 6y
DebinHawaii @BethFishReads @AmyG Tbat would be pretty awesome! 😆👍 6y
UnabridgedTomes It doesn‘t get better. Well, it might; I lost interest and stopped reading 3/4s through. Code Name Verity is her best work. Hooray for soup! That, at least, is a good thing. 6y
DebinHawaii @UnabridgedTomes It is pleasant enough to listen to while cooking so I may stay with it--we'll see. 😬Code Name Verity is on my #TBR list.👍 6y
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DebinHawaii
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A little #audiosouping for #soupersundays. This is Mark Bittman's Chinese-Style Peanut Soup with Tofu & Bok Choy from How to Cook Everything Fast. Really tasty--it reminds me of a Thai satay sauce & it's vegan. Link to recipe is below. Slowly making my way through this book, enjoying it so far but only listening to it when I make soup. 😋🍲💜

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DebinHawaii
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Doing a little #audiosouping to this book. (I think it was an Audible Deal a few months back.) The author's code Name Verity is still on my #TBR list but I have been on hold at the library for it for ages. Enjoying this one so far and it seems like a good fit for the simple potato leek soup I'm making. The finished soup will be lunch & a blog post later today. #audiocooking #sunday

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AceOnRoam
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4 ⛤⛤⛤⛤
A YA mystery that I loved listening to, but I'm not convinced that this should make the shortlist tomorrow for the #TournamentOfBooks #theRooster #TOB2018

This was not the cover on my audiobook but I love it!

#ReadingOnRoam

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AceOnRoam
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I'm not sure why this book is in the #tob2018 longlist it's such a strange pick. #EclecticReaders

My drink tonight. Actually every night 😆🍷😍❤

#11thHourReadathon @EclecticReaders
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EclecticReaders Pairs well with reading! Cheers! 🍷 6y
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AceOnRoam @Cinfhen ❤😚 6y
LeahBergen I love this photo. ❤️❤️ 6y
AceOnRoam Thank you @LeahBergen 😊🍷 6y
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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Prejudice against Travellers in the book made my skin crawl. But then there is Lady Julia Lindsay Mackenzie Wallace Beaufort - Stuart standing up for what is right. Julie, as she prefers to be called, is just the kind of heroine I love; gutsy and sassy. Also cracking good mystery. The narrator of Audio book does awesome job with Scottish accents.

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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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I'm really enjoying this. Cracking good mystery. I like Julie. Narrator is doing a great job with Scottish accents.

DebinHawaii I have this one but haven't listened to it yet. Glad to hear you are enjoying it! 👍📚 6y
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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Disappointing. I was fascinated by the historical material and loved learning about Scottish Travellers and river mussel pearls. But the characters and the narrative itself fell flat. I never felt emotionally invested in the characters nor did the central mystery add any tension. The treatment of bisexuality was very blase, which I guess in one way is nice but on the other hand felt very strange for a landed gentry teen girl in 1938 Scotland.

ReadingEnvy Ah dang, I just heard about this one on the Tournament of Books longlist and thought I might try it. 6y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @ReadingEnvy I seem to be in the minority, so you may still like it! Or the other book that this one is a prequel to, people seem to love that one! 6y
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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Reading in bed on Saturday morning!

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merelybookish
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Five of us in a hotel room in Canon City, CO (where actor Glen Ford once slept, according to the sign on the door.) Chances I'll get to read my book...slim.
Wishing you all a bookish & relaxing post-Thanksgiving/regular Thursday evening. ☺️

vivastory Hope you manage to sneak in a few chapters! 6y
kspenmoll Maybe in the bathroom? Oops thats shared too...📚 6y
merelybookish @vivastory Thanks. I'm definitely getting in some episodes of Teen Titan Go. 🙄 @kspenmoll I think sleep is my best option. 🤤 6y
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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I am learning a lot of cool things in this #YA book! Like about Scottish river mussels that make pearls and Scottish Travellers, nomadic people who are considered a specific ethnic group in Scotland. Also there's a cool bisexual girl character. #BisexualBooks #QueerBooks #QueerYA

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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A fun ya mystery with murder and pearls and theft. Set in Scotland before World War Two, it touches on interesting points that are not common in ya fiction.

jmtrivera I'm so excited to hear this was good. I really liked her previous book. 6y
Nitpickyabouttrains @jmtrivera it was a little bit a prequel (it‘s about Julie, who is in her other books). But it definitely stands on its own well. 6y
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AvidReaderandGeekGirl
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A new apartment needs a new book!

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Gemmas1
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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Not bad. Not Code Name Verity of course, and sometimes it didn't feel like I was really reading about the Julie / Verity from it - but what can you really expect? The mystery wasn't too hard to crack early on and it was a wee bit too long but I enjoyed it! (Oops. Only have picture of the two books. 😚)

Bookzombie I didn't know about this book! Stacked! 7y
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Penny_LiteraryHoarders
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Sitting outside on this beautiful breezy day reading The Pearl Thief. Tunes softly playing on the Jambox in the background. 😊

Yawednesdays Just finished Code Name Verity. I need to read this!! 7y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders I loved Code Name Verity so much!! 😊❤️ 7y
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Susanne
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I'm not a booktuber, but I watch them all the time. I thought I'd participate in #booktubeathon starting on Monday. There are seven challenges, which I definitely won't finish, but I thought I'd choose books for them anyway and give it my best shot. Maybe I'll finish two.

Challenge 1: A person on the cover - The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein. I loved loved loved Code Name Verity, and this is a story (mystery?) about Julie when she was younger.

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chezrebecca
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A prequel to Code Name Verity. Definitely a more light hearted read - it was enjoyable to see how Julie developed the skills and personality put on display in Code Name Verity.

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nicole_in_neverland
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What was your favorite book you read during the month of June?
Mine was The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein!
I read 5 books in total last month and some of them were giants so I'm happy with the progress I made! Hopefully I'll get to more during July! I'm planning on taking a long weekend to do some reading soon!
#junewrapup #harrypotter #jkrowling #neverfade #alexandrabracken #thepearlthief #jamespatterson #dianagabaldon

captivatedbywords ACOMAF! But I only read that but it still would have been my favorite read of the month if I had read more. 7y
nicole_in_neverland @captivatedbywords Wasn't it just amazing?! It's gotta be your favorite no matter what you read with it! 7y
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ninergrl6
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I wasn't sure this #prequel could live up to my love for #CodeNameVerity, but it did 100%. Being in Julie's world/mind again felt nostalgic. I think TPT could stand on its own (mystery, coming of age, etc), but the foreshadowing of CNV made me ache for Julie & her future self. It also made me long to visit #Scotland again. Added bonuses for me: numerous references to #MaryQueenOfScots, #Shakespeare, and even a #sassenach. #ya #historicalfiction

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ninergrl6
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"He took off his shoes and stripped efficiently down to his underwear -- why is it right for BOYS but not for GIRLS to do this?"
Seems a little awkward to be reading a book about Scotland while looking at the Pacific on a beautiful, sunny day, but this quote kind of fits my location. Still LOVING The Pearl Thief and seeing Julie's cunning personality develop as an adolescent. Now I want to re-read Code Name Verity! #ya #scotland #historicalfiction

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ninergrl6
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Loving this book (and my Darth Vader socks) #ya #scotland #codenameverity #historicalfiction

kathyellendavis Yay you're finally reading it!!! 7y
ninergrl6 @kathyellendavis slowly but surely! 7y
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nicole_in_neverland
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4.5/5 stars!

A prequel to Code Name Verity, we get to spend a summer with Julie before she became Verity at her family home in Scotland.
It was a fun story filled with mystery and murder and a fun assortment of characters! It wasn't at all what I was expecting but I still really enjoyed the book!
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#thepearlthief #elizabethwein #20booksofsummer #historicalfiction #candle #novelheartbeat #flowers #haveread

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nicole_in_neverland
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First post! I just started reading The Pearl Thief this morning and it's definitely not what I was expecting (I read Code Name Verity forever ago and don't remember much about it) but I'm really enjoying it so far! So far it's a bit more of a mystery than historical fiction but I do love a good mystery!
#currentlyreading #thepearlthief #elizabethwein #historicalfiction #nowreading

MrBook Welcome to @Litsy ! We hope you enjoy your stay with us 😊👍🏻. We're the most positive, tight-knit, passionate bibliophile community you'll meet. Careful: this'll take over your life. 😂👏🏻🙌🏻
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nicole_in_neverland @MrBook Haha it already is! This is already so much better than Instagram because people seem to want to talk to each other! 7y
MrBook 🙌🏻🙌🏻 7y
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ninergrl6
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By complete coincidence I started reading this book on the exact date when the story begins 😱 #kismet #serendipity #codenameverity #ya #historicalfiction #scotland

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Daisey
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Mehso-so

I finished The Pearl Thief over breakfast and had to think a while before writing my thoughts. I've really enjoyed Wein's novels and was excited to read this, but it just didn't grab nor hold my attention like her others. I don't know if it was missing the life and death struggle I've come to associate with her books or something else. It seemed somehow too flippant and slightly unrealistic to me. A toss-up between so-so & pick.

#YA #NetGalley

merelybookish That's too bad. Code Name Verity is such a good book. 7y
Daisey @merelybookish It really was ok, but it did not live up to my expectations. Have you read Rose Under Fire? I actually liked it better than Code Name Verity, but I tend to think I'm in the minority on that opinion. 7y
merelybookish @Daisey No but it's on my TBR 7y
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onesmartcupcake
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Oh, my Julie, I love you so. And I love a quiet but rich coming of age with a little mystery twist.

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UnabridgedTomes
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You had me at the end-paper map. (Anybody else love books that have maps of where they're set?)

MariaW This one looks like a dancing person. 😊 7y
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JuliaQuinn
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SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Chachic Looking forward to reading this! 7y
JuliaQuinn Me too! I bought it, but I'm saving it. 7y
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WinFinBug
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"Before Verity...there was Julie"

Cannot wait to start this book

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Lauredhel
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Just started reading the Pearl Thief and I'm sucked in to the story straight away. Loving it.

heidisreads This book is going with me on vacation next week!! 7y
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Missusb
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Finally finished reading and reviewing this beguiling book. Its accurate portrayal of a crumbling social strata in 1930s Scotland is as poignant as meeting up with the feisty Julie as a whip smart open hearted nosy teenager. https://trishtalkstexts.wordpress.com/2017/05/07/review-the-pearl-thief/

It's already released in the US and the UK and due in June to Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿

#bittersweet #netgalley #bloomsbury #elizabethwein

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Missusb
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Moray_Reads
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No, no, no. Fun period mysteries are my go to genre when I want something light but this is ridiculous. I've rarely read a more unconvincing protagonist. Lady Julie is so profoundly Mary-Sue (and I HATE that term), and so "modern" and so utterly unbelievable as a 15 year old everything she did and said made me furious. Oh and the plot, dull, unoriginal, obvious and so SLOW. Ugh.

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Moray_Reads
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Bulgakov said wine so... Wine. What can I say? He's my hero. Plus homemade roasted cauliflower and garlic chowder and focaccia. Shame I don't really care for the book alongside

Reviewsbylola 🤤🤤🤤 7y
tpixie Interesting soup! Recipe source? 7y
tpixie Thanks! That recipe looks tastier than Martha Stewart's version ! 7y
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brownekr
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"How long does it take? How do you ever hold on to anybody?"

Without inserting my entire life story here, this is something I feel A LOT, particularly as someone whose family has spent summers in the same place for over 50 years (which is nothing on ancestral estates, for sure).

Reading this in March Madness commercial breaks, so let me also say that the Michigan/Oklahoma State game was SOMETHING.

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JennyReadsBooks
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It's hard to know which of us loves this book more. Of course, they've been using it more as a pillow than reading material... #lazybookday #amreading #arc #hyperion #elizabethwein #thepearlthief #prequel #booklove #bookcat #bookdog #sharingiscaring #readinginbed #yafiction