Forget-Her-Nots (29 page)

Amy Brecount White
has taught English literature and writing to middle school and high school students. She has written numerous articles and essays for publications such as the
Washington Post
, but
Forget-Her-Nots
is her first novel. She can often be found in her garden and gives flowers to her friends and family whenever she can, though none have had magical effects—yet.

Amy Brecount White lives with her family in Arlington, Virginia.

www.amybrecountwhite.com

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This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used to advance the fictional narrative. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

FORGET-HER-NOTS
. Copyright © 2010 by Amy Brecount White. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

The lines from “somewhere i have never travelled, glady beyond” quoted in Chapter Seven, copyright 1931 © 1959, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1979 by George James Firmage, from
Complete Poems
,
1904–1962
by E. E. Cummings, edited by George James Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Excerpt from
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery quoted in Chapter Five, copyright 1943 by Harcourt, Inc., and renewed 1971 by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery; English translation copyright © 2000 by Richard Howard, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Excerpt from “The Knight’s Tale,” from
The Canterbury Tales
quoted in Part Four, translation copyright 1993 by Ronald Ecker and Eugene Joseph Crook, published by Hodge & Braddock. Reprinted by permission of Ronald Ecker.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

White, Amy Brecount.

Forget-her-nots / by Amy Brecount White.

p. cm.

“Greenwillow Books.”

Summary: At a Charlottesville, Virginia, boarding school, fourteen-year-old Laurel begins to realize that she shares her deceased mother’s connection with flowers, but as she begins to learn their ancient language and share it with other students, she discovers powers that are beyond her control.

ISBN 978-0-06-167298-9 (trade bdg.)

[1. Flower language—Fiction. 2. Flowers—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 4. Boarding schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. Mothers and daughters—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.W58176For 2010    [Fic]—dc22    2009007105

EPub Edition © January 2010 ISBN: 9780061990595

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