Egg & spoon
Maguire, Gregory2014
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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 travelling 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.
Main title:
Egg & spoon / Gregory Maguire.
Author:
Imprint:
Somerville : Candlewick Press, 2014.
Collation:
496 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780763672201 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
Related title:
Egg & spoon [electronic resource]
Subject:
BRN:
245278
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolverton Library | Adult fiction | Fantasy | Available |