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Anyone but Ivy Pocket
Caleb Krisp
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Description for Anyone but Ivy Pocket
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Kelly, John. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 4KHJ; 5AK; YFCF; YFQ; YFT. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). .
Ivy Pocket is a twelve-year-old maid with the natural instincts of a wartime Prime Minister. Or at the very least, a lighthouse keeper. For the princely sum of GBP500, Ivy has agreed to courier the Duchess of Trinity's most precious possession - the Clock Diamond - from Paris to England, and to put it around the neck of the revolting Matilda Butterfield on her twelfth birthday. Acquiring bosom friends and instant enemies as she goes, it's not long before Ivy finds herself at the heart of a conspiracy involving mischief, mayhem and murder. ... Read more
Ivy Pocket is a twelve-year-old maid with the natural instincts of a wartime Prime Minister. Or at the very least, a lighthouse keeper. For the princely sum of GBP500, Ivy has agreed to courier the Duchess of Trinity's most precious possession - the Clock Diamond - from Paris to England, and to put it around the neck of the revolting Matilda Butterfield on her twelfth birthday. Acquiring bosom friends and instant enemies as she goes, it's not long before Ivy finds herself at the heart of a conspiracy involving mischief, mayhem and murder. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408858646
SKU
V9781408858646
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Caleb Krisp
Caleb Krisp was raised by militant librarians who fed him a constant diet of nineteenth century literature and room-temperature porridge. He graduated from the University of Sufferance with a degree in Whimsy and set out to make his mark in the world as a writer. Years of toil and failure followed, until, following a brief stint working in a locked ... Read more
Reviews for Anyone but Ivy Pocket
A wonderfully entertaining heroine'
Financial Times
Exuberantly told with apt and wildly witty caricatures from John Kelly, it has a fun, original voice
Sunday Times
Praise from bloggers: an exuberant, lively, enthusiastic, mysterious, playful, layered and most of all highly enjoyable read! Children's Book Chat; a delight; a laugh-out-loud cobweb of intrigue and ... Read more
Financial Times
Exuberantly told with apt and wildly witty caricatures from John Kelly, it has a fun, original voice
Sunday Times
Praise from bloggers: an exuberant, lively, enthusiastic, mysterious, playful, layered and most of all highly enjoyable read! Children's Book Chat; a delight; a laugh-out-loud cobweb of intrigue and ... Read more