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(0)Katherine Rundell
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First US edition 2014.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Will must find her way after she's plucked out of a wonderful life in Zimbabwe and forced to go to boarding school in England"--Provided by publisher.
2) Rooftoppers
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When authorities threaten to take Sophie, twelve, from Charles who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to try to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
62 pages ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
Katherine Rundell explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive essay is for adult readers.
Author
Series
Impossible creatures volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christopher discovers the Archipelago, a world where mythological creatures were secreted away by magic long ago, but those creatures are now dying, and it is up to Christopher and Mal, a girl from the Archipelago, to save both of their worlds.
5) The explorer
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First US edition.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s New York City, a young girl with a deformed foot recruits her new friends, a female pickpocket and two circus performers, to help recover an emerald from her grandfather's mansion in upstate New York after he loses his home to an unscrupulous tycoon." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mink doesn't believe in rules. She loves letting her hair down and getting the most out of life. So when a loose zebra appears in the square where she live-and she finds out that his parents have been captured by the evil Mr. Spit-she'll do what it takes to make sure the zebra family can run as wild and free as she does."--
