The Glass Town game / Catherynne M. Valente ; illustrated by Rebecca Green.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 535 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781481476966
- 1481476963
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Valente Catheryn | Available | 33111008959682 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Valente Catheryn | Available | 33111008817153 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner
"Dazzling." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Charlotte and Emily Brontë enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this "lovely, fanciful" ( Booklist , starred review) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making .
Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school. But then something incredible happens: a train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own.
This is their Glass Town...almost. Their Napoleon never rode into battle on a fire-breathing porcelain rooster. And the soldiers can die; wars are fought over a potion that raises the dead, a potion Anne would very much like to bring back to England. But returning is out of the question--Charlotte will never go back to that horrible school.
Together the Brontë siblings must battle their own imaginations in this magical celebration of authorship, creativity, and classic literature from award-winning author Catherynne M. Valente.
"Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school, a school they might not return from. But on this Beastliest Day, the day Anne and Branwell walk their sisters to the train station, something incredible happens: the train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own."--Book jacket flap.
Ages 10 and up.