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Strange star / Emma Carroll.

Strange star / Emma Carroll.
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ISBN 9780571317653 (paperback)
0571317650 (paperback)
Name Carroll, Emma author.
Title Strange star / Emma Carroll.
Published London : Faber & Faber, 2016.
©2016.
Description 307 pages ; 20 cm.
Summary The year of 1816 felt extraordinary, and all because of a strange sort of star in the sky. Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Early one summer's morning, a servant boy named Felix delivers an invitation. Tonight, at the mysterious Ville Diodati, there will be ghost stories that promies to 'freeze the blood'. As darkness falls, the guests arrive. The storytelling begins. Then comes an unexpected knock at the door. Felix discovers a girl on the doorstep. She's travelled a long way to tell her tale, and now he must listen. But be warned: hers is no ordinary ghost story. Inspired by though not based on the story of how Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.
Target audience note 9 - 12 years old.
Subjects Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction
Monsters -- Juvenile fiction
Scientists -- Juvenile fiction
Children's stories
Geneva, Lake (Switzerland and France) -- Juvenile fiction
Genre Ghost stories
Gothic fiction
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