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264 pp.
| Little |
March, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-316-01818-0$15.99
(3)
4-6
Illustrated by
Catia Chien.
For orphaned ten-year-old Isabelle, life in Runny Cove is miserable. The weather is unrelentingly dreary, her factory job is grueling, and the proprietor of her boarding house is a miserly scoundrel. Luckily everything changes when she learns of her long-lost family's magic-growing farm. Offbeat characters, shown in black-and-white chapter-opener illustrations, pepper Isabelle's encounters in this light fantasy.