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The Undrowned Child
Michelle Lovric
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Description for The Undrowned Child
Paperback. A stunning debut in which Venice is dying - and a long-ago prophecy of an enchanted child has been awakened from the canal's poisoned waters. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 296.
It's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as ... Read more
It's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hachette Children´s Group
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
295g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444000047
SKU
V9781444000047
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About Michelle Lovric
Michelle Lovric divides her time between a flat on the Thames and Venice. She has published three novels for adults, of which THE REMEDY was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book 'Love Letters' was a New ... Read more
Reviews for The Undrowned Child
I would recommend this book to anyone that would like to have fun while finding out true stories about this world famous city... This brilliant adventure is full of fantasy and drama and there is always something going on
Rachel (young reviewer)
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Rachel (young reviewer)
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