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The Battle of the Sun

The Battle of the Sun

by JeanetteWinterson (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

    $3.27

  • Used

    Paperback 2010

    $3.27

  • Used

    Hardcover 2009

    $4.22
Synopsis

Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1660s into a golden city. But Jack isn't the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involved in an epic and nail-biting adventure featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles to save London.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: Export ed
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 02 Nov 2009
ISBN 10: 1408801507
ISBN 13: 9781408801505
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
 Book Overview: Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2011 An evil Magus is intent on turning London into gold. Only a boy and his quick wits stand between the Magus and his goal Jeanette Winterson at her most inventive, lyrical, imaginative and brilliant

Media Reviews
PRAISE FOR TANGLEWRECK 'Winterson has a fine ear for children's dialogue and her writing is lucid, pitched perfectly at imaginative young readers' Sunday Telegraph 'An exceptional book: big, ambitious and awash with Winterson's usual inventiveness' Observer 'No one could fail to enjoy the book's exuberance of ideas and wacky charm' Evening Standard
Author Bio
Jeanette Winterson's first novel for children, Tanglewreck, was widely admired. Here in her second, readers will once more relish her free-spirited literary inventiveness and style. Jeanette won the Whitbread for her first book Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. She lives in Oxfordshire and travels extensively lecturing about her work.