Earthly Astonishments
In the late nineteenth century, in a dot of a town called Westley, lives the smallest girl in the world. Josephine stands only twenty-two inches high and her parents charge gawkers a penny a piece to see her - until they realize that the headmistress of MacLaren Academy for Girls will pay even more.At the Academy Josephine is treated like a slave and is tormented by the fine young ladies who attend, until she takes five gold dollars and runs away. She finds a new life with R. J. Walters' Museum of Earthly Astonishments. Among the other human curiosities in the Coney Island freak show, Josephine finds the family she has never known...and dange…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-77049-036-9
- EAN: 9781770490369
- Produktnummer: 15714853
- Verlag: Tundra
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'631 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 8 - 12 J.
Über den Autor
Marthe Jocelyn is a talented and versatile author and artist. She has written two novels for middle readers, The Invisible Day and The Invisible Harry, and a novel for young adults, Earthly Astonishments. She also wrote and illustrated two stories about Hannah, Hannah and the Seven Dresses and Hannah's Collection. Marthe Jocelyn and her family divide their time between New York City and Stratford, Ontario.
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