The Girl with Gills
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Sprache:Englisch
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Format
ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Altersempfehlung
ab 9 Jahr(e)
Erscheinungsdatum
03.07.2025
Verlag
Bloomsbury eBooks UKSeitenzahl
272 (Printausgabe)
Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781035912384
A FINANCIAL TIMES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR
'Thrilling, heartfelt, and luminous' Vashti Hardy
'A stunning debut' Jasbinder Bilan
'The world-building here is so seamless it's almost unnoticeable' School Reading List
An original, middle grade fantasy debut awash with adventure. A determined heroine and a sinister villain clash to reveal river lore in a watery world of fantastical creatures and colossal challenges.
In a time and place which might be now, people with gills, outcast larkers, live in secret communities.
They have houseboats along the river. Concealing their gills from land lubbers, they scour the mudbanks, trade their finds and live off their wits. Thirteen-year-old Effra has been supporting her brother, Fleet, alone since their beloved grandfather died six months ago.
When merciless Rivermun, a larker gone bad, threatens Fleet, Effra's quests begins. Rivermun asks for the impossible - he wants to overpower Mother River, to possess the river serpent's pearl and for age-old debts to be settled. Effra must bargain with the imposing Mother River, dive into the underwater parts of the city, venture deep into the Rat Queen's lair and confront the terrible river serpent to save not only Fleet, but everything the larkers stand for. Luckily, she is not alone. She befriends a sentient sewer rat and a landlubber girl called Bow, who will help her in her quest.
'Thrilling, heartfelt, and luminous' Vashti Hardy
'A stunning debut' Jasbinder Bilan
'The world-building here is so seamless it's almost unnoticeable' School Reading List
An original, middle grade fantasy debut awash with adventure. A determined heroine and a sinister villain clash to reveal river lore in a watery world of fantastical creatures and colossal challenges.
In a time and place which might be now, people with gills, outcast larkers, live in secret communities.
They have houseboats along the river. Concealing their gills from land lubbers, they scour the mudbanks, trade their finds and live off their wits. Thirteen-year-old Effra has been supporting her brother, Fleet, alone since their beloved grandfather died six months ago.
When merciless Rivermun, a larker gone bad, threatens Fleet, Effra's quests begins. Rivermun asks for the impossible - he wants to overpower Mother River, to possess the river serpent's pearl and for age-old debts to be settled. Effra must bargain with the imposing Mother River, dive into the underwater parts of the city, venture deep into the Rat Queen's lair and confront the terrible river serpent to save not only Fleet, but everything the larkers stand for. Luckily, she is not alone. She befriends a sentient sewer rat and a landlubber girl called Bow, who will help her in her quest.
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