The undrowned child - Lovric, Michelle.

Autor: Lovric, Michelle.

2009417 pp. 14 x 20,5 cm. It's the beginning of the 20th century. the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go 'between the linings' to subvert evil and restore order.. Cartoné con sobrecubierta.. 9781842557020. Idiomas Inglés, Narrativa,