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by: Nancy Werlin  List Price: $72.97 Amazon.com's Price: $53.27 You Save: $19.70 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 9781423378617 Edition: Library Format: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged ISBN: 142337861X Label: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed Number Of Items: 8 Publication Date: November 20, 2008 Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: November 20, 2008 Studio: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Lucy Scarborough is seventeen when she discovers that the women of her family have been cursed through the generations, forced to attempt three seemingly impossible tasks or to fall into madness upon their child’s birth. How can Lucy succeed when all of her ancestors have tried and failed? But Lucy is the first girl who won’t be alone as she tackles the list. She has her fiercely protective foster parents beside her. And she has Zach, whose strength amazes her more each day. Do they have enough love and resolve to overcome an age-old evil? Inspired by the ballad “Scarborough Fair,” this spellbinding novel combines suspense, fantasy, and romance for an intense and masterfully original tale. “Werlin reinforces her reputation as a master of the YA thriller...brilliant.” – Booklist starred review on The Rules of Survival “Mesmerizing.” – Publishers Weekly starred review on Double Helix Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A real page turner...Summanary: Lucy Scarborough is a fairly normal teenage girl, she has two loving foster parents, Soledad and Leo Markowhitz and great friends, Zach and Sarah. When she finds herself pregnant at 17, she is lost for words. For some reason, she feels that she can't get an abortion. After, Zach finds Miranda's(Lucy biological mom) diary, she finds that she is cursed. Lucy finds that not only did it drive her mom insane, but it will soon do that to her. Unless Lucy does three impossible task listed in ... Read More Rating: - ImpossibleImpossible is a great mix of realistic and fantasy fiction. Lucy is a great, strong heroine. The novel centers around the curse that surrounds the women in Lucy's family. Lucy only has a limited time to figure out how to break the curse. This book will keep readers hooked throughout its entire plot. I rated it a 5/5. [..] Rating:  - Impossible not to likeThis book is about a girl named Lucy. The women in Lucy's family are cursed to loose their sanity on the day their daughter is born witch is always when they are 18 years old. That is, of corse, if they fail to complete the impossible tasks the Elfin Knights asks of them in the Scarborough Fair song: "Are you going to the Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Remember me to one who lives there She must be a true love of mine Tell her she'll ... Read More Rating: - Suspense, Magic, and Romance!I've been wanting to read this book for a long time. Last week, amid my Christmas book-buying frenzy, I picked up Nancy Werlin's Impossible as a gift to myself, and what a gift it was. Lucy, the 17-year-old main character, is fighting a centuries-old family curse based on the impossible tasks in the folk song "Scarborough Fair." She has nine months to solve the riddles of the ballad, to save herself and her unborn child. Unlike her mother and her mother's mother before her, Lucy has ... Read More Rating: - Are you going to Scarborough Faire?Raise your hand if you haven't heard the song "Scarborough Faire." Odds are, your hand is down and your head's full of music. As with many songs, the ballads are based on legends. This is just one possible scenario for "Scarborough Faire." On her seventh birthday, Lucy Scarborough finds a hidden letter in a hollowed out place in her bookshelves. She cannot read the cramped cursive writing, but she figures the old papers have some 'magic'. Angry at her best friend, Zach, ... Read More 
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