Daring Darleen, Queen of the Screen, Nesbet Anne

Автор: Nesbet Anne
Название: The Cabinet of Earths
ISBN: 0061963194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780061963193
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 4870.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание:

The Cabinet of Earths, Anne Nesbet's debut novel for tweens, blends fantasy, science, and horror into an irresistible story in the vein of the classic His Dark Materials series.

Twelve-year-old Maya is miserable when she has to move from California to Paris. Not speaking French at a school full of snobby French girls is bad enough, but Maya believes there is something sinister going on in her new city. A purple-eyed man follows Maya and her younger brother, James. Statues seem to have Maya's face. And an eerie cabinet filled with mysterious colored bottles calls to her.

When James becomes the target of dark forces, Maya decides she must answer the call of the Cabinet of Earths, despite the danger.

Автор: Nesbet Anne
Название: The Orphan Band of Springdale
ISBN: 1536213195 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536213195
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 6130.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: "Nesbet deftly weaves disparate elements -- music, orphans, labor unions, carrier pigeons, and a magic wish -- into a richly developed story." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has fled the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her sole memento of her father. But in a family that's long on troubles and short on money, how can a girl hang on to something so valuable and yet so useless when Gusta's mill-worker uncle needs surgery to fix his mangled hand? Inspired by her mother's fanciful stories, Gusta secretly hopes to find the coin-like "Wish" that her sea-captain grandfather supposedly left hidden. Meanwhile, even as Gusta gets to know the rambunctious orphans at the home, she feels like an outsider -- and finds herself facing patriotism turned to prejudice, alien registration drives, and a family secret likely to turn the small town upside down.