Mist / Marta Palazzesi ; translated by Christopher Turner.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Brooklyn : Red Comet Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 160 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781636550695
- 163655069X
- Nebbia. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | New | PALAZZES MARTA | Available | 33111011104672 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | New | PALAZZES MARTA | Available | 33111011222474 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of the Bologna Strega Ragazzi Prize 2020
"A not-to-be-missed tale of courage and compassion."-Katherine Applegate
The incredible story of a boy's quest to give the ultimate gift to a caged wild animal: freedom.
London, 1880, 13-year-old Clay is a mud lark, scavenging on the banks of the Thames for anything he might sell for money to buy food. One day Clay goes to the camp of the circus that has newly arrived in town and meets Ollie, a girl about his age, who lives with the circus. Ollie brings him to the cage of "the last wolf in England". Mist, as he calls it, is fierce, angry, and indomitable, perhaps due to the cruel treatment of its tamers, which Clay secretly witnesses. From that moment on, Clay is resolved to give the wolf its freedom and return it to the wild. But first he must build trust with the wolf and, with Ollie's help, find a way to release Mist back into the wild. This suspenseful novel will have readers rooting for Clay and Mist as they navigate their way through the obstacles that lay in their path.
"Originally published in Italian as Nebbia ©2019 Editrice Il Castoro Srl ... Milano."--Title page verso.
"London, 1880, 13-year-old Clay is a mud lark, one of the countless boys who survive by scavenging along the banks of the Thames. One day, while trying to sell a set of tarot cards, Clay stumbles upon Smith & Sparrow's Amazing Circus, whose menagerie boasts 'the last surviving wolf in the United Kingdom.' Wolves haven't been seen in the wild for over three centuries, so Clay can hardly believe his eyes when he meets up with the silver-coated, amber-eyed creature. Mist, the name the boy gives him, is a wild, fierce, and indomitable beast. Clay decides to do everything in his power to free him from captivity."-- Front jacket flap.
Translated from the Italian.