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The Boys Who Lost Fairyland
Catherynne M. Valente
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Description for The Boys Who Lost Fairyland
Paperback. When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen, he becomes a Changeling - a human boy - in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his Changeling fate, while attending school and learning about human kindnesses - and un-kindnesses. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 140 x 214 x 23. Weight in Grams: 224.
When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a Changeling - a human boy - in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his Changeling fate, while attending school and learning about human kindnesses - and un-kindnesses. TIME magazine has praised Catherynne M. Valente's Fairyland books as one of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century. In this fourth installment of her saga, ... Read more
When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a Changeling - a human boy - in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his Changeling fate, while attending school and learning about human kindnesses - and un-kindnesses. TIME magazine has praised Catherynne M. Valente's Fairyland books as one of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century. In this fourth installment of her saga, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave USA
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781250073327
SKU
V9781250073327
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Ref
99-15
About Catherynne M. Valente
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE is the author of over a dozen books of fiction and poetry, and is best-known for her urban speculative fiction, including Palimpsest (winner of the 2010 Lambda Award), and The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden. The Boy Who Lost Fairyland, her first novel for young readers, was posted online in 2009 and won the Andre Norton ... Read more
Reviews for The Boys Who Lost Fairyland
Valente's Fairyland is as bizarre and beautiful as ever, with a Wonderland-like un-logic that will keep readers both delighted and slightly off-balance.
The Horn Book for The Boy Who Lost Fairyland Readers may wish the words were food, so they could eat them up. And they may keep reading this series for just as long ... Read more
The Horn Book for The Boy Who Lost Fairyland Readers may wish the words were food, so they could eat them up. And they may keep reading this series for just as long ... Read more