by Katherine Rundell · Estrella Polar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491372707
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«La banda dels terrats» is the children's and young adult adventure novel by Katherine Rundell, published by Estrella Polar in paperback (272 pages, in Catalan).
Sophia, rescued from a shipwreck by the scholar Charles, faces being separated from him by social services. To avoid this, she flees to Paris convinced that her mother is still alive. There she meets Matteo and the rooftoppers, children who live on the rooftops, and with them she searches for her mother from the city's heights.
Catalan translation by Carles Andreu Saburit; original English title: Rooftoppers. Part of the L'illa del temps collection.
Recommended for children and young adult readers aged 10 and up, especially for those who enjoy adventure stories.
Katherine Rundell is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week, Poetry Please, Seriously.... and Private Passions.
