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ISBN: 9780062345097

Inhalt: " From the bestselling author of E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book Liesl &,Po comes a timely and relevant adventure story about monsters of all kinds and a girl brave enough to save them. Cordelia Clay loves the work she and her father do together: saving and healing the remarkable creatures around Boston at the end of the nineteenth century. Their home on Cedar Street is full to the brim with dragons, squelches, and diggles, and Cordelia loves every one of them. But their work must be kept secret others aren't welcoming to outsiders and immigrants, so what would the people of Boston do to the creatures they call monsters? One morning, Cordelia awakens to discover that her father has disappeared along with nearly all the monsters. With only a handful of clues and a cryptic note to guide her, Cordelia must set off to find out what happened to her father, with the help of her new friend Gregory, Iggy the farting filch, a baby dragon, and a small zuppy (zombie puppy, that is). "

Inhalt: Biographisches: " Lauren Oliver is the cofounder of media and content development company Glasstown Entertainment, where she serves as the President of Production. She is also the New York Times bestselling author of the YA novels Replica , Vanishing Girls , Panic , and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium , Pandemonium , and Requiem , which have been translated into more than thirty languages. The film rights to both Replica and Lauren's bestselling first novel, Before I Fall , were acquired by Awesomeness Films. Before I Fall was adapted into a major motion picture starring Zoey Deutch. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, garnering a wide release from Open Road Films that year. Oliver is a 2012 E. B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl &,Po , as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers and The Curiosity House series, co-written with H.C. Chester. She has written one novel for adults, Rooms. Oliver co-founded Glasstown Entertainment with poet and author Lexa Hillyer. Since 2010, the company has developed and sold more than fifty-five novels for adults, young adults, and middle-grade readers. Some of its recent titles include the New York Times bestseller Everless , by Sara Holland,the critically acclaimed Bonfire , authored by the actress Krysten Ritter,and The Hunger by Alma Katsu, which received multiple starred reviews and was praised by Stephen King as disturbing, hard to put down and not recommended...after dark. Oliver is a narrative consultant for Illumination Entertainment and is writing features and TV shows for a number of production companies and studios. Oliver received an academic scholarship to the University of Chicago, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University. www.laurenoliverbooks.com. " Rezension(2): "Kirkus Reviews (starred review) :In this grimy, Dickensian world, an alternate-history Gilded Age, vast wealth coexists with grinding poverty and fear of the other runs deep: Where fear rules, difference is the enemy... The monsters are standouts, manifesting, like all animals, unique natural attributes and proclivities (described in a comprehensive guide). Charming or alarming, these creatures and their world, rendered in abundant, imaginative detail, beg for further exploration." Rezension(3): "ALA Booklist:Oliver's imaginative story combines exquisite descriptions with a spirited narrative, and readers will delight in the quirky creatures and settings." Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from November 18, 2019 In this thoughtful adventure set in the late 19th century, a girl who helps her veterinarian father to treat wounded monsters must locate her dad after he is apparently abducted—along with the myriad creatures living in their rambling Boston home. With little more than a threatening note to go on, Cordelia Clay, 12, and her newfound friend Gregory must track down the villain responsible in a world that doesn’t know about the existence of dragons, zombie puppies, and their ilk, and treats social outcasts with cruelty. As Cordelia and Gregory’s quest takes them to a traveling circus in New York, a Canadian university, and back home, they find a terrifying threat to monsters everywhere while exploring the idea that “the monsters people name are not the real danger... it’s the monsters who name themselves that you really have to watch out for.” Oliver’s ( Broken Things ) marvelous historical fantasy hits just the right tone of sincerity and whimsy,alongside weighty themes “of violence, of hatred, of cages and isolation,” an excerpt from A Guide to Monsters and Their Habits describes many of the beasties in enough detail to ground the premise and bring the monsters to life, and occasional illustrations by Aldridge ( Estranged ) give a realistically fantastic feel to the meaningful text. Ages 8–12. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from November 1, 2019 Cordelia Clay helps her father, Cornelius, rescue injured and endangered monsters, restoring them to health in the ramshackle family mansion,when her father and the monsters disappear, she sets out to find them. Gregory, a homeless orphan whose sick zombie puppy--a zuppy--she cured, insists on joining Cordelia's dangerous quest. The baby dragon with a broken wing and the elderly filch found hidden in the oven can't be left behind, either, as those aware that monsters do exist advocate exterminating them. Traveling by foot, rail, hot air balloon, and--after Cordelia resolves a pixie infestation--sailing ship, the children flee across Boston, seek out a Manhattan circus featuring monsters, and visit a Nova Scotia university, encountering anxious monsters posing as humans along the way. In this grimy, Dickensian world, an alternate-history Gilded Age, vast wealth coexists with grinding poverty and fear of the other runs deep: Where fear rules, difference is the enemy. Cordelia's mother, author of a definitive natural history of monsters, held more benign views, convinced that the two evolutionary branches, Animalia (ours) and Prodigia (monsters), were relatives sharing a common origin, but died before proving her theory. While resourceful Cordelia and stalwart Gregory are good company, the monsters are standouts, manifesting, like all animals, unique natural attributes and proclivities (described in a comprehensive guide). Charming or alarming, these creatures and their world, rendered in abundant, imaginative detail, beg for further exploration. (Human characters seem to be white in Aldridge's woodcutlike illustrations.) Enchanting. (Fantasy. 8-14) COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://www.slj.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/schoollibraryjournal_logo.png alt=School Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from February 1, 2020Gr 4-6- Cordelia Clay lives in a world where monsters are real, and it is her father's job (and hers by proxy) to track down injured monsters to nurse them back to health. Her mother was the author of the definitive guide to natural monster history, but died in her attempt to prove her controversial theory that the two branches of monster evolution stemmed from the same root. When her father disappears it is down to Cordelia and, reluctantly on her part, Gregory, the homeless orphan whose zuppy (zombie puppy) she cured, to rescue him. Filled with a treasure trove of fascinating creatures, this Dickensian world is a treat to explore. It is also incredibly relatable, highlighting the paradox of great wealth among immense poverty and addressing themes of fear-mongering and the need for social change. The book begins with a comprehensive guide to the world's creatures that readers will turn to again and again. VERDICT Oliver's characters leap off the page and readers of all ages will find themselves eagerly rooting them on and clamoring for more as their story ends. Hand this to fans of adventure, magical creatures, and epic quests.- India Winslow, Cary Memorial Library, Lexington, MACopyright 2020 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(7): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 1, 2019 Grades 4-7 In their crumbling Boston mansion, Cordelia Clay and her father keep a secret: they heal mysterious monsters. Recovering pixies, injured dragons, and other unusual creatures?the Clays keep them safe from a world sure to mistreat them. Cordelia's life is upended when she wakes to find that her father and the monsters have all gone missing, leading her to search for where they've gone and who might have wanted them out of the picture. Oliver's imaginative story combines exquisite descriptions with a spirited narrative, and readers will delight in the quirky creatures and settings. While the book seems to focus on literal monsters?including a detailed reference guide in the front matter?it also examines the concept more figuratively, through the monstrous behavior that humans are capable of and the monsters that people make the unfamiliar out to be. Despite the nineteenth-century New England setting, the themes speak to present-day discussions over immigration and race, fitting a serious and important message into an otherwise fanciful enterprise.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.) "

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