![]() ![]() Then another girl disappears, and Pia is plunged into a new and unnerving place, one far away from fairy tales-and perilously close to adulthood. Their investigation is inspired by the instructive-and cautionary-local legends told to them by their elderly friend Herr Schiller, tales such as that of Unshockable Hans, visited by witches in the form of cats, or of the knight whose son is doomed to hunt forever. Pia and Stefan suspect that Katharina has been spirited away by the supernatural. But, this being real life, she doesn’t return. Then, like a character in a Grimm’s fairy tale, she disappears. ![]() Katharina was last seen on a float in a parade, dressed as Snow White. The only one who still wants to be her friend is StinkStefan, the most unpopular child in school.īut then something else captures the community’s attention: the vanishing of Katharina Linden. But tell that to the citizens of Pia’s little German hometown of Bad Münstereifel, or to the classmates who shun her. It isn’t ten-year-old Pia’s fault that her grandmother dies in a freak accident. ![]()
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