Ophelia and the marvelous boy / Karen Foxlee.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2014]Edition: First editionDescription: 228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385753543 (hbk.)
- 0385753551
- 9780385753548 (hbk.)
- 9780385753555
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Foxlee Karen | Available | 33111007252287 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | Foxlee Karen | Available | 33111007499003 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Magic is "messy and dangerous and filled with longing," we learn in this brave tale of grief, villainy and redemption that borrows from the story of the Snow Queen. Set in a vast, chilly museum, the tale brings together a valiant girl, a charmed boy, a magical sword and a clock ticking down to the end of the world."-- The Wall Street Journal
This is the story of unlikely heroine Ophelia Jane Worthington-Whittard who doesn't believe in anything that can't be proven by science. She and her sister Alice are still grieving for their dead mother when their father takes a job in a strange museum in a city where it always snows. On her very first day in the museum Ophelia discovers a boy locked away in a long forgotten room. He is a prisoner of Her Majesty, the Snow Queen. And he has been waiting for Ophelia's help.
As Ophelia embarks on an incredible journey to rescue the boy everything that she believes will be tested. Along the way she learns more and more about the boy's own remarkable journey to reach her and save the world.
A story within a story, this a modern day fairytale about the power of friendship, courage and love, and never ever giving up.
Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.