The Twelve
Pushkin Children's Books (Verlag)
978-1-78269-398-7 (ISBN)
WINNER OF THE NERO PRIZE FOR CHILDREN'S FICTION
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF BEARMOUTH, COMES THIS HAUNTINGLY MAGICAL NEW NOVEL, HAILED BY READERS AS A MODERN CLASSIC
'Hauntingly beautiful' Hannah Gold, author of The Last Bear
'The Twelve reads like a modern classic, with echoes of Alan Garner, Marcus Sedgwick, and C.S. Lewis.' Essie Fox
'Dark, dreamy, surreal and beautiful.' Katya Balen, author of October, October
It's supposed to be a treat for Kit, a winter holiday by the coast with her sister Libby and their mum. But when Libby vanishes into thin air, and no one else remembers her, Kit is faced with a new reality - one in which her sister never existed.
Then she meets Story, a local boy who remembers Libby perfectly. Together they embark on a journey beyond their wildest imagination into a world steeped in ancient folklore. Can Kit and Story uncover the secret of the Twelve and rescue Libby before Time runs out?
Liz Hyder has been making up stories ever since she can remember. She has a BA in drama from the University of Bristol and, in early 2018, won the Bridge Award/MoniackMhor's Emerging Writer Award.?Her first novel,?Bearmouth, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Readers, the Branford Boase Award, and was TheTimes's?Children's Book of The Year. Tom De Freston is an artist based in Oxford with his wife, Kiran Millwood Hargrave. His practice is dedicated to the construction of multimedia worlds, combining paintings, film and performance into immersive visceral narratives.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2024 |
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| Illustrationen | Tom De Freston |
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Designer: Tom De Freston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kinder- / Jugendbuch |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78269-398-X / 178269398X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78269-398-7 / 9781782693987 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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