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The Midwatch

By: Judith Rossell

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The biggest children's book of the year! The Midwatch is the long-awaited new middle-grade novel from internationally bestselling author–illustrator Judith Rossell, creator of the multi-award-winning novel Withering-by-Sea. ‘The city was stuffed full of wickedness, everyone knew that …’ Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure she’s in for a life of drudgery. But she quickly discovers there’s more to the Midwatch than meets the eye … The city shimmers with jewels and secrets, and soon Maggie is thrust into an adventure that takes her deep underground, high above the clouds and face to face with danger itself. Turn the page and prepare to be drawn into a lavishly illustrated world, brimming with mystery, unlikely heroines and an adventure as big as the sky. PRAISE FOR THE MIDWATCH ‘Gasp-out-loud brilliant! An absolute treasure of a book.’ — KATRINA NANNESTAD, bestselling author of We Are Wolves ‘I was hooked from the beginning ... Move over Lemony Snicket!’ — KAREN FOXLEE, award-winning author of Lenny’s Book of Everything ‘Welcome all treasure-hunters and mystery-solvers to the Midwatch Institute … [where] disobedient girls are not to be underestimated!' — AMELIA MELLOR, award-winning author of The Grandest Bookshop in the World ‘A cracking concept, sensational characters and absolutely smashing pictures: The Midwatch is the cat’s pyjamas!’ — JACLYN MORIARTY, award-winning author of the Kingdoms and Empires series

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Hardie Grant Publishing

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174358945X

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9781743589458

Withering-by-Sea

By: Judith Rossell

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Withering-by-Sea

By: Judith Rossell

Originally published: Sydney South, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2014.

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Simon and Schuster

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1481443674

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9781481443678

Wormwood Mire

By: Judith Rossell

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Wormwood Mire

By: Judith Rossell

This spine-tingling sequel to Withering-by-Sea sees Stella sent away to the moldering old family estate, where she discovers two odd cousins—and a mystery. Eleven-year-old Stella Montgomery has always wondered about her family. What happened to her mother? And could she have a long-lost sister somewhere? Stella’s awful Aunts refuse to tell her anything, and now they have sent her away to the old family home at Wormwood Mire, where she must live with two strange cousins and their governess. But dark secrets slither and skulk within overgrown grounds of the house, and Stella must be brave if she’s to find out who—or what—she really is…

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Simon and Schuster

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1481443720

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9781481443722

Jack Jones and the Pirate Curse

By: Judith Rossell

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Jack Jones and the Pirate Curse

By: Judith Rossell

With the death of his Great-Uncle Mungo, Jack learns to his dismay that, as the tenth-generation descendant of the Caribbean pirate Blackstrap Morgan, he is next in line to inherit the Pirate Curse and is fated to spend his life running from a vengeful band of pirates--unless he finds a way to outsmart them.

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180

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802796613

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9780802796615

Hector and the Mythical Creatures

A Hunt and Solve Puzzle

By: Judith Rossell

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Hector and the Mythical Creatures

A Hunt and Solve Puzzle

By: Judith Rossell

Aided by the reader, Hector must find hidden objects in order to assist such creatures as the Wyvern, the Kraken, and the Yeti, who have offered jewels in return for his help.

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Lark Books

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1600590527

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9781600590528

Inspector Rockfort & the Missing Treasure

By: Judith Rossell

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Inspector Rockfort & the Missing Treasure

By: Judith Rossell

By solving riddles and spotting clues in the illustrations, the reader is asked to help the ingenious rat detective Inspector Rockfort solve the mystery of missing Egyptian treasures from the town museum.

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Sterling Publishing Company

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1600590500

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9781600590504

Inspector Rockfort & the Missing Jewels

By: Judith Rossell

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Inspector Rockfort & the Missing Jewels

By: Judith Rossell

By solving riddles and spotting clues in the illustrations, the reader is asked to help the ingenious rat detective Inspector Rockfort solve the mystery of jewels missing from the necklace of Countess Horne.

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Sterling Publishing Company

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1600590519

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The Lost Treasure of the Green Iguana

A Jungle Maze Adventure

By: Judith Rossell

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The Lost Treasure of the Green Iguana

A Jungle Maze Adventure

By: Judith Rossell

The Explorers' Club needs you for an urgent mission to track down the missing Dr. Fortuito and recover the Lost Treasure of the Green Iguana. Forge a path through 10 mazes using the Dr.'s notes to help you negotiate encounters with giant water snails, crocodiles, snake vines, and the guardian of the treasure trove, the great Green Iguana!.

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Sterling Publishing Company

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1579909493

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Beginning Well

Framing Fictions in Late Middle English Poetry

By: Judith M. Davidoff

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Beginning Well

Framing Fictions in Late Middle English Poetry

By: Judith M. Davidoff

This book advances the argument that there exist in Middle English verse distinct narrative patterns that affected medieval contemporary audiences in symbolic ways. The author focuses upon one particular narrative pattern that occurs in a large number of poems, allowing us to discern, even if we do not share, unstated medieval assumptions about narrative structure.

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258

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838632084

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9780838632086

Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England

Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

By: Judith M. Bennett

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Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England

Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

By: Judith M. Bennett

Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women's work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually left the trade. She also offers a compelling account of the endurance of patriarchy during this time of dramatic change.

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Oxford University Press

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0199879443

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9780199879441

Gender Development

By: Judith E. Owen Blakemore,Sheri A. Berenbaum,Lynn S. Liben

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Gender Development

By: Judith E. Owen Blakemore,Sheri A. Berenbaum,Lynn S. Liben

This text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book’s current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes about children’s everyday experiences. The book’s accessibility is further enhanced with the use of bold face to highlight key terms when first introduced along with a complete glossary of these terms. All three of the authors are respected researchers in divergent areas of children’s gender role development and each of them teaches a course on the topic. The book’s primary focus is on gender role behaviors – how they develop and the roles biological and experiential factors play in their development. The first section of the text introduces the field and outlines its history. Part 2 focuses on the differences between the sexes, including the biology of sex and the latest research on behavioral sex differences, including motor and cognitive behaviors and personality and social behaviors. Contemporary theoretical perspectives on gender development – biological, social and environmental, and cognitive approaches – are explored in Part 3 along with the research supporting these models. The social agents of gender development, including children themselves, family, peers, the media, and schools are addressed in the final part. Cutting-edge and comprehensive, this is the perfect text for those who have been searching for an advanced undergraduate and/or graduate book for courses in gender development, the psychology of sex roles and/or gender and/or women or men, taught in departments of psychology, human development, and educational psychology. Although chapters have been designed to be read sequentially, a full author citation is included the first time a reference is used within an individual chapter rather than only the first time it is used in the book, making it easy to assign chapters in a variety of orders. This referencing system will also appeal to scholars interested in using the book as a resource to review a particular content area.

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527

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Psychology Press

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1135079331

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9781135079338

Quality ESL Programs

An Administrator's Guide

By: Judith Simons,Mark Connelly

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Quality ESL Programs

An Administrator's Guide

By: Judith Simons,Mark Connelly

This book is the first and only comprehensive guide for administrators building ESL programs. The guide provides insight into the development, administration, and evaluation of programs for ESOL students. It stresses the importance of facilitating policy decisions and creating a solid infrastructure for quality programming. The variety of integrated perspectives presented enables administrators to better make valid, grounded decisions related to the education of their increasing numbers of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students.

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R&L Education

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1461650429

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9781461650423

Educating Immigrant Students in the 21st Century

What Educators Need to Know

By: Xue Lan Rong,Judith Preissle

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Educating Immigrant Students in the 21st Century

What Educators Need to Know

By: Xue Lan Rong,Judith Preissle

This comprehensive new edition clarifies current demographic data on immigration, addresses factors that influence linguistic transition and achievement, and explores evidence-based practices and policies.

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Corwin Press

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145229738X

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Elephant Trees, Copales, and Cuajiotes

A Natural History of Bursera

By: Judith X. Becerra,David Yetman

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Elephant Trees, Copales, and Cuajiotes

A Natural History of Bursera

By: Judith X. Becerra,David Yetman

Predominantly native to the U.S. Southwest, Mexico, and the Caribbean, the various species of Bursera have been prized throughout history for their distinctive aromas, medicinal properties, workable wood, and attractive appearance. Despite its extensive past and current use as incense in religious ceremonies, and its resourceful antiseptic ability to treat a range of maladies, no comprehensive book exists on this vital yet overlooked plant. Highlighting bursera’s importance and impact within the desert Southwest and Mexico, this volume will be the first book to describe the ecology, evolution, ethnobotany, and peculiar chemistry of the many species of Bursera. In the United States, Bursera is represented by the short, contorted, and aromatic elephant tree of the hot Sonoran Desert and the stately and colorful gumbo limbo of southern Florida, while in the torrid lowlands of southern Mexico, the engines of evolution have produced forests dominated by dozens of species of Bursera, each with a peculiar ecological slot. This evolutionary tableau presents a complicated sex life that puzzles scientists. Recent research also reveals a gripping narrative of an epic struggle between trees and the insects that would subsist on their leaves: the insects seeking to exploit a food resource, the trees reacting with ever-changing, dramatic counter strategies. In addition to the fascinating and intricate workings of the genus’s ecological adaptations, burseras play a formative role in the lives of indigenous populations. Native peoples relish the plants’ aromatic resin, workable wood, and often colorful bark as a source for endless human applications. Written in an engaging style, enhanced with two hundred color photographs, and complete with a compendium of species descriptions, this book will be an essential reference on a significant North American plant.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816551952

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9780816551958

Education in Crisis

A Reference Handbook

By: Judith A. Gouwens

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Education in Crisis

A Reference Handbook

By: Judith A. Gouwens

A description and critique of education reform in the United States since the 1950s, focusing on the current condition of American schools and efforts to increase both educational opportunity and overall excellence. Authoritative and objective, Education in Crisis: A Reference Handbook is a critical look at the current state of the American school system, the conditions that have led many to label it "in crisis," and solutions aimed at leveling the educational playing field, elevating overall student achievement, and keeping American students competitive on the world stage. Education in Crisis shows how competing economic, political, philosophical, psychological, and global interests have influenced American education reform. It then covers a range of reform initiatives, including magnet schools, basic skills curriculum, home schooling, and the role of technology. A comparison of the U.S. education system to those of other countries and a presentation of helpful resources round out this essential volume for educators, policymakers, parents, and anyone concerned about the nation's schools.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216077657

Women in the Medieval English Countryside

Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague

By: Judith M. Bennett

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Women in the Medieval English Countryside

Gender and Household in Brigstock before the Plague

By: Judith M. Bennett

Unlike most histories of European women, which have typically focused on the 19th and 20th century elite, this study reconstructs the public lives of peasant women and men during the six decades before the Black Death of 1348-49. Drawing on the extensive records of the forest manor of Brigstock, Judith Bennett challenges the myth of a "golden age" of equality for medieval men and women. Instead, she ably shows that women faced profound political, legal, economic, and social disadvantages in their dealings with men. These disadvantages stemmed more from women's household status as dependents of their husbands than from any notion of female inferiority; consequently, adolescents and widows participated much more actively than wives in the public life of Brigstock. Women in the Medieval English Countryside demonstrates not only how enduring the subordination of women has been throughout English history, but also how firmly that subordination has been rooted in the conjugal household.

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Oxford University Press

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0198021135

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9780198021131

Fictions of Advice

The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England

By: Judith Ferster

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Fictions of Advice

The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England

By: Judith Ferster

Fictions of Advice historicizes the late medieval mirrors (or handbooks) for princes to reveal how the ambiguities and contradictions characteristic of the genre are responses to—as well as attempts to manage—the risks implicit in advising a king. Often thought of as moralizing advice unable to engage political conflicts, the mirrors for princes have been taken for dull and conventionalized testimonies to the medieval taste for platitude. Judith Ferster maintains that advice was at the center of one of the important political debates in the late Middle Ages: how to constrain the king and allow for his subjects' participation. Fictions of Advice rereads the English mirrors for princes to show how their moralizing was often highly topical and even subversive. Although overtly deferential to the rulers they address, the mirrors' authors were surprisingly capable of criticism and opposition. In putting the texts back into their historical contexts, Ferster reveals the vital cultural and political function they fulfilled in their societies.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512805521

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Becoming Belafonte

Black Artist, Public Radical

By: Judith E. Smith

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Becoming Belafonte

Black Artist, Public Radical

By: Judith E. Smith

A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential players on the American scene in the decades following World War II—from Paul Robeson to Ed Sullivan, John Kennedy to Stokely Carmichael—Belafonte established his place in American culture as a hugely popular singer, matinee idol, internationalist, and champion of civil rights, black pride, and black power. In Becoming Belafonte, Judith E. Smith presents the first full-length interpretive study of this multitalented artist. She sets Belafonte's compelling story within a history of American race relations, black theater and film history, McCarthy-era hysteria, and the challenges of introducing multifaceted black culture in a moment of expanding media possibilities and constrained political expression. Smith traces Belafonte's roots in the radical politics of the 1940s, his careful negotiation of the complex challenges of the Cold War 1950s, and his full flowering as a civil rights advocate and internationally acclaimed performer in the 1960s. In Smith's account, Belafonte emerges as a relentless activist, a questing intellectual, and a tireless organizer. From his first national successes as a singer of Calypso-inflected songs to the dedication he brought to producing challenging material on television and film regardless of its commercial potential, Belafonte stands as a singular figure in American cultural history—a performer who never shied away from the dangerous crossroads where art and politics meet.

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University of Texas Press

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0292729146

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9780292729148

Understanding Children and Adolescents

By: Judith A. Schickedanz

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Understanding Children and Adolescents

By: Judith A. Schickedanz

This book explains the physical, cognitive, language, and social development of infants and toddlers, pre-schoolers, school-age children, and adolescents.

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Allyn & Bacon

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020531418X

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9780205314188

Art Lover's Travel Guide to American Museums 1997

By: Patti Sowalsky,Judith Swirsky

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Art Lover's Travel Guide to American Museums 1997

By: Patti Sowalsky,Judith Swirsky

With over 750 listings, this travel guide to American art museums provides a directory of permanent collections and the year's notable special exhibitions at each museum. It includes information on ticket prices, handicap accessibility, facilties, descriptions of collections and special shows.

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448

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0789203634

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9780789203632

Miller's International Antiques Price Guide, 1993

By: Judith Miller

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Miller's International Antiques Price Guide, 1993

By: Judith Miller

This american edition is filled with up-to-date authoritative valuations and photographs of more than 10,000 objects. A succinct description of each item contains a price range.

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Penguin Putnam

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0670845000

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9780670845002

Collectibles Price Guide

By: Judith Miller,Mark Miller

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Collectibles Price Guide

By: Judith Miller,Mark Miller

Provides up-to-date values for a wide range of collectibles from Barbie dolls to textiles, and features more than five thousand color photographs for easy identification.

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0756613396

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9780756613396

Withering-by-Sea

By: Judith Rossell

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Withering-by-Sea

By: Judith Rossell

A stalwart orphan sets out on a spine-tingling adventure in this wildly imaginative and darkly funny Victorian middle grade novel. High on a cliff above the gloomy Victorian town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old orphan Stella Montgomery leads a miserable life with her three dreadful aunts. Stella dreams of adventuring on the Amazon—or anyplace, really, as long as it isn’t this dreary town where nothing ever happens. Then one night Stella sees something she shouldn’t have. Soon she finds herself on the run from terrifying Professor Stark and his gang of thugs. But how can one young girl outwit an evil magician, much less rescue his poor, mistreated assistant? With the help of a mysterious maestro, his musical cats, and a lively girl named Gert, Stella Montgomery sets out to do the impossible.

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Simon and Schuster

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1481443690

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9781481443692

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