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Rooftoppers

 9.50

by Katherine Rundell

FOYLES CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019
From the winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award

‘An amazing adventure story, told with sparkling style and sleight of hand’ JACQUELINE WILSON
‘Read everything she writes’ DAILY MAIL

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Rooftoppers

Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck – found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived.

When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matters into her own hands, starting with the only clue she has – the address of a cello-maker in Paris. On the run from the authorities, Sophie finds Matteo and his network of rooftoppers – urchins who walk tightropes and live in the sky. In a race across the rooftops of Paris, will they be able to find her mother before it’s too late?

About the Author

Katherine Rundell is an award-winning children’s writer and a Fellow in English Literature at All Souls College, Oxford. Her books have won, among others awards, the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award, the Boston Globe Horn Book Award in America, the Andersen Prize in Italy and Le Prix Sorcières in France.

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Weight 0.35 kg
Dimensions 11 × 1.2 × 18 cm