| ISBN |
0763680168 |
| 9780763680169 (paperback) |
| Name |
Maguire, Gregory author. |
| Title |
Egg & spoon : a novel / by Gregory Maguire. |
| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Published |
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015. |
| ©2014 |
| Description |
475 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Contents |
Part One : Untimely thunder. The world of curtains ; The world in a graveyard ; The doctor's curse ; Farther afield ; Tea brewed from salt tears ; Double lighting ; Thunder on the rails ; The accidental guest ; Mamenka's gift ; The apple ; The porridge ; Pay attention day ; The ghostly daughters of Miersk ; The egg -- Part Two : Iron horse, chicken house. Two girls misplaced ; Trapped ; Surprise day ; The hand at the window ; The morning is wiser then the night ; You're not yourself today ; Two cats ; Discovery ; The hut in the woods ; Onward to Saint Petersburg ; And onward to Saint Petersburg ; The reluctant student ; The progress of Dumb Doma ; Two moons in the long wet night ; Miss Yaga ; A grey rainbow -- Part Three : Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg. Sharing ; Vitebsky Station ; Curses and penalties ; A fresh enchantment ; The hunger of children ; The news of the evening ; Landfall ; Traffic ; The floating pavilions of the Tsar ; The treasury of marvels ; Admission denied ; The Tsar of all the Russias ; Meanwhile on the other side ; A divertimento ; The presentation of the gift ; Vanished ; The marvels deliver their opinion ; Under arrest -- Part Four : Fire and ice, ice and fire. A wasp in the jam ; Brother Uri ; An audience with the Tsar ; The second night of the festival ; The house of solitary confinement ; North ; Together ; The league of freed prisoners ; The snow tornado ; Moths ; Perplexity ; Myandash ; The sneezing cave ; mey-Adaja ; The starry crown ; Still later -- Part Five : Home again, Home again. The teeth of the beast ; The dragon-tooth boy ; The part-time hero ; A house has its secrets ; Armies meet by moonlight ; The immortal hen of the tundra ; The Norway geese ; On the bridge near Archangel ; The kitten's advice ; The word of the Tsar ; All aboard who are going aboard ; The graveyard in springtime ; The doctor's advice ; After. |
| Summary |
In 1905 Tsarist Russia, an impoverished country girl Elena and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga. |
| Reading Program Note |
Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9. |
| Subjects |
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction |
| Mistaken identity -- Juvenile fiction |
| Monks -- Juvenile fiction |
| Princes -- Juvenile fiction |
| Witches -- Juvenile fiction |
| Baba Yaga -- Juvenile fiction |
| Young adult fiction |
| Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 |
| Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 -- Juvenile fiction |
| Russia -- Juvenile fiction |
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