The Cabinet of Wonders (Kronos Chronicles) - Hardcover

Rutkoski, Marie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374310262 ISBN 13: 9780374310264

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008

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An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 258 pages; Description: viii, 258 p. ; 22 cm. Subject: Romanies -- Juvenile fiction. Magic -- Juvenile fiction. Princes -- Juvenile fiction. Summary:Twelve-year-old Petra, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister. Series: Kronos chronicles, bk. # 1.

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Reseña del editor:

Twelve-year-old Petra Kronos, accompanied by her magical tin spider, goes to Prague hoping to retrieve the enchanted eyes the Prince of Bohemia took from her father, and is aided in her quest by a Roma boy and his sister.

Biografía del autor:

Marie Rutkoski is the author of The Kronos Chronicles. The Cabinet of Wonders was her debut novel and was named an Indie Next Kids' List Great Read and a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, among other honors. Rutkoski grew up in Bolingbrook, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), as the oldest of four children. She attended the University of Iowa, where she took Writers' Workshop classes and studied with Pulitzer Prize-winner James Alan McPherson. After graduating, she lived in Moscow and Prague. Upon receiving her Ph.D. from Harvard University, she held dual appointments as a lecturer there in both English and American Literature and Language, and History and Literature. Rutkoski is currently a professor at Brooklyn College, where she teaches Renaissance Drama, children's literature and creative writing. She lives in New York City.

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• Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0374310262
• ISBN 13: 9780374310264
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258