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The Crimson Shard
Teresa Flavin
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Description for The Crimson Shard
Paperback. This is the follow up title to the critically acclaimed Blackhope Enigma. Our two contemporary heroes Sunni and Blaise are lured through a painted doorway to eighteenth-century London where they encounter body snatchers, art thieves and forgers in their attempt to escape. This is a fast-moving and gripping adventure. Series: The Blackhope Trilogy. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: YFH. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 242. Good, clean copy
A visit to a private London museum takes a sinister turn when fifteen-year-old Sunni Forrest and her friend Blaise are lured through a painted doorway into the past. As a clandestine, eighteenth-century world of art thieves, forgers and bodysnatchers closes in on them, they must take their chances on the treacherous streets of the city. Can they evade their captors and keep an ancient secret from falling into the wrong hands? And will they find the key to unlock the only way home - before it closes forever?
A visit to a private London museum takes a sinister turn when fifteen-year-old Sunni Forrest and her friend Blaise are lured through a painted doorway into the past. As a clandestine, eighteenth-century world of art thieves, forgers and bodysnatchers closes in on them, they must take their chances on the treacherous streets of the city. Can they evade their captors and keep an ancient secret from falling into the wrong hands? And will they find the key to unlock the only way home - before it closes forever?
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Templar Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
The Blackhope Trilogy
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848770737
SKU
KSG0006199
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Teresa Flavin
Teresa Flavin's first novel, THE BLACKHOPE ENIGMA, was shortlisted for the 2011 Scottish Children's Book Award, the 2011 Leeds Book Award and the 2011 Waverton Good Reads Award, and longlisted for the 2011 Branford Boase Prize. When she is not writing or illustrating, Teresa leads school art workshops, makes paintings and handmade books, travels to far-flung places with her geographer ... Read more
Reviews for The Crimson Shard
The plot moved along at a splendid pace and many readers will hope to learn more of the Fausto Corvo story and his mystical paintings in the future.
The SL
'The characters are appealing and the adventure is exciting and full of incident'
School Library Journal Reviews
'this book hooked me from the first page!'
... Read more
The SL
'The characters are appealing and the adventure is exciting and full of incident'
School Library Journal Reviews
'this book hooked me from the first page!'
... Read more