by Katherine Rundell · SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS YOU · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781442490598
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«Rooftoppers» is Katherine Rundell's young adult novel, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Sophie was found as a baby floating in the English Channel inside a cello case after a shipwreck. When the authorities threaten to send her to an orphanage, her guardian Charles and she flee to Paris to search for her mother. There she discovers the rooftoppers, children who live on the city's rooftops, who help her in her quest.
Novel winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2014 and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. This edition includes illustrations by Terry Fan.
Recommended reading for children and young people aged 8 to 12, with a taste for adventures and stories with historical settings.
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.
