Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Random House of Canada
ISBN: 9780394895895
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
The Ruby in the Smoke
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Random House of Canada
ISBN: 9780394895895
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
Publisher: Random House of Canada
ISBN: 9780394895895
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
Sally Lockhart Slipcase
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439959230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439959230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Tin Princess
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407130576
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sally and Jim meet up with Adelaide again, but now as Crown Princess of Razkavia and threatened by rivals who want to take the kingdom from the Crown Prince.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407130576
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sally and Jim meet up with Adelaide again, but now as Crown Princess of Razkavia and threatened by rivals who want to take the kingdom from the Crown Prince.
The Sally Lockhart Collection
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407116419
Category : Lockhart, Sally (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Four compulsively readable Victorian thrillers, packed with vividly drawn characters and fascinating period detail, together in a slipcase. Includes: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well and The Tin Princess.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407116419
Category : Lockhart, Sally (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Four compulsively readable Victorian thrillers, packed with vividly drawn characters and fascinating period detail, together in a slipcase. Includes: The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well and The Tin Princess.
Newt's Emerald
Author: Garth Nix
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 1471407934
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Inspired by the works of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, Garth Nix's Newt's Emerald is a light hearted Regency romance with a fantasy twist. After Lady Truthful's magical Newington Emerald is stolen from her she devises a simple plan: go to London to recover the missing jewel. She quickly learns, however, that a woman cannot wander the city streets alone without damaging her reputation, and she disguises herself as a moustache-wearing man. During Truthful's dangerous journey she discovers a crook, an unsuspecting ally, and an evil sorceress but will she find the Emerald?
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN: 1471407934
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Inspired by the works of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, Garth Nix's Newt's Emerald is a light hearted Regency romance with a fantasy twist. After Lady Truthful's magical Newington Emerald is stolen from her she devises a simple plan: go to London to recover the missing jewel. She quickly learns, however, that a woman cannot wander the city streets alone without damaging her reputation, and she disguises herself as a moustache-wearing man. During Truthful's dangerous journey she discovers a crook, an unsuspecting ally, and an evil sorceress but will she find the Emerald?
For Freedom
Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385729618
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Based on interviews with the real Suzanne David, this story of World War II heroism relates how a teenage Suzanne, training to become an opera singer, is recruited as a secret courier by an organizer in the French Resistance.
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385729618
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Based on interviews with the real Suzanne David, this story of World War II heroism relates how a teenage Suzanne, training to become an opera singer, is recruited as a secret courier by an organizer in the French Resistance.
Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748740628
Category : Detective and mystery plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In a play that both dramatizes and makes fun of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective and Dr. Watson investigate a report of the Giant Rat of Sumatra and match wits with Professor Moriarty.
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748740628
Category : Detective and mystery plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
In a play that both dramatizes and makes fun of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the great detective and Dr. Watson investigate a report of the Giant Rat of Sumatra and match wits with Professor Moriarty.
Count Karlstein
Author: Philip Pullman
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375803483
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Now in paperback, a spooky and funny middle-grade thriller from the author of The Golden Compass.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375803483
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Now in paperback, a spooky and funny middle-grade thriller from the author of The Golden Compass.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245950
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Getting the Girl
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545623707
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In the final novel of the acclaimed Wolfe Brothers Trilogy, Cameron Wolfe goes looking for love as he attempts to escape his brother’s shadow. Cameron Wolfe is a loser. He knows it. He’s the quiet one, not a soccer star like his brother Steve or a charming fighter with a new girl every week like his brother Rube. Cam would give anything to be near one of those girls, to love her and treat her right. He especially likes Rube’s latest, Octavia, with her brilliant ideas and bright green eyes. But what woman like that would want a loser like him? Maybe Octavia would, Cam discovers. Maybe he has talents and passions just waiting to be discovered. And those maybes are about to change everything: winning, loving, losing, the Wolfe brothers, and Cameron himself.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545623707
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
In the final novel of the acclaimed Wolfe Brothers Trilogy, Cameron Wolfe goes looking for love as he attempts to escape his brother’s shadow. Cameron Wolfe is a loser. He knows it. He’s the quiet one, not a soccer star like his brother Steve or a charming fighter with a new girl every week like his brother Rube. Cam would give anything to be near one of those girls, to love her and treat her right. He especially likes Rube’s latest, Octavia, with her brilliant ideas and bright green eyes. But what woman like that would want a loser like him? Maybe Octavia would, Cam discovers. Maybe he has talents and passions just waiting to be discovered. And those maybes are about to change everything: winning, loving, losing, the Wolfe brothers, and Cameron himself.