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Ophelia and The Marvellous Boy

Ophelia and The Marvellous Boy 1

by Karen Foxlee
Paperback
Publication Date: 06/02/2014
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Eleven-year-old Ophelia might not be brave, but she certainly is curious. Her family are still reeling from her mother's death, and in a bid to cheer everyone up, her father has taken a job at a fantastically enormous and gothic museum in a city where it never stops snowing. Ophelia can't wait to explore - and she quickly discovers an impossibility. In a forgotten room, down a very dark corridor, she finds a boy, who says he's been imprisoned for three-hundred-and-three-years by an evil Snow Queen who has a clock that is ticking down towards the end of the world. A sensible girl like Ophelia doesn't quite believe him, of course, but there's no denying he needs her help. There are many other, darker, impossibilities in this museum too. Ghosts, wolves, Misery Birds, magical swords - and even fabled Snow Queens - will all do their very best to stop Ophelia and hurt her family. She will have to garner all her courage, strength and cleverness if she is to rescue this most Marvellous Boy - and maybe even save the world in the process.
ISBN:
9781471403361
9781471403361
Category:
Fantasy & magical realism (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06-02-2014
Publisher:
Hot Key Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x15mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Karen Foxlee

Karen Foxlee is an Australian author who writes for both kids and grown-ups. Her first novel, The Anatomy of Wings, won numerous awards including the Dobbie Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book.

Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy, Karen’s first novel for children, was published internationally to much acclaim, while her second novel for younger readers, A Most Magical Girl, won the Readings Children’s Fiction Prize in 2017 and was CBCA shortlisted the same year. Karen lives in south-east Queensland with her daughter and several animals, including two wicked parrots who frequently eat parts of her laptop when she isn’t looking.

Her passions are her daughter, writing, daydreaming, baking, running and swimming in the sea.

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A wonderful fairytale for middle fiction readers with a kick-arse heroine that accepts nothing at face value and questions everything that she is ever told.

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