| Egg & Spoon Contributor(s): Maguire, Gregory (Author) |
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ISBN: 0763672203 ISBN-13: 9780763672201 Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA) OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Class Differences - Young Adult Fiction | Legends, Myths, Fables - General - Young Adult Fiction | Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014931834 |
| Lexile Measure: 700 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.1" W x 8.4" (1.70 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 168143 Reading Level: 5.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 17.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg -- a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age. When the two girls' lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and -- in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured -- Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs. |