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The Secret of Platform 13

The Secret of Platform 13

by Alex T. Smith (Illustrator), Eva Ibbotson (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

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Synopsis

Under Platform 13 at King's Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island ...It appears only once every nine years. And when it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of London. A wizard, an ogre, a fey and a young hag have come to find the prince of their kingdom, stolen as a baby nine years before. But the prince has become a horrible rich boy called Raymond Trottle, who doesn't understand magic and is determined not to be rescued. The Secret of Platform 13 is an exciting magical adventure from Eva Ibbotson, the award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea. 'This kind of fun will never fail to delight' Philip Pullman

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: New Edit/Cover
 Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Published: 09 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 1447265718
ISBN 13: 9781447265719
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
 Book Overview: A hilarious, fantastical young fiction book from Eva Ibbotson, award-winning author of Journey to the River Sea. Shortlisted for the Smarties Prize.

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Author Bio
Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world. Journey to the River Sea won the Nestle Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Some of her other young fiction titles include The Great Ghost Rescue, Which Witch? and Dial a Ghost. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.