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    The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls
    The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls
    The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls
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    The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls

    By Melissa Yuan-Innes

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    When Melanie's mother dumps her at the Little Flower Preparatory College for Girls, Melanie can handle the uniforms and the 6 a.m. wake-up calls. But when the nuns' discipline turns savage and Melanie discovers that the parents have essentially abandoned them, Melanie must save herself and her best friend, even if it means consorting with a vampire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOlo Books
    Release dateJan 6, 2011
    ISBN9780986835629
    The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls
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    Melissa Yuan-Innes

    Melissa Yuan-Innes is an emergency room doctor and writer who lives with her husband, one son, one daughter, two cows, and too many mosquitoes outside of Montreal, Canada. She writes thrillers and science fiction/fantasy under Melissa Yuan-Innes, mysteries under the name Melissa Yi, romance under Melissa Yin, and children's/YA under Melissa Yuan. "Mixing mystery in with sheer humanity and splendid characterization, Yuan-Innes's story is a delight." --Alicia Curtis, A&E Editor, The Stormy Petrel "Melissa Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker" --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's "Yuan-Innes employs a fresh use of language to spin a storyline that is at once universally familiar and intriguingly original." --Brian Agincourt Massey, judge of the 2008 Innermoonlit Award for Best First Chapter of a Novel, in awarding first prize to _The Popcorn Girl Meets Darwin Jones_

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      The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls - Melissa Yuan-Innes

      The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls

      Melissa Yuan-Innes

      Published by Olo Books

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      Copyright 2011 by Melissa Yuan-Innes

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      The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls

      Melissa Yuan-Innes

      It was hard to believe that skipping school and smoking up had landed me at the Little Flower Preparatory College for Girls, a good two hours away from the civilization known as Toronto, but my mother dropped me off with my luggage, an Opium-perfumed air kiss, and no backward glance.

      The main building, at the north end, was a block of stone with a clock tower. The heavy wood door thudded behind me. Stepping inside was like crossing from day to dusk, into the abrupt embrace of dim

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