Bibliograph

Egg & spoon, Gregory Maguire

Type

Label

Egg & spoon, Gregory Maguire

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

700L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Egg & spoon

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

878538292

Responsibility statement

Gregory Maguire

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Accelerated Reader, MG+, 5.6, 17, 17, 168143

Summary

In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg, a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age. When the two girls' lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and, in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured, Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs

Target audience

juvenile

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Egg and spoon

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