by Karen McCombie · Scholastic · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781407164106
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«The Pearl in the Attic» is Karen McCombie's children's mystery novel, published by Scholastic in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Scarlet tidies her grandmother's apartment above a shop in Crouch End and finds a novel her grandmother wrote: the life of Ruby, a girl who lived there and worked in the bakery below. As she reads it, Scarlet realizes Ruby was real and that her story in Victorian London hides a danger and a mystery that reaches the present.
The book was originally published in 2017 and is recommended for readers aged 9 to 12.
Suitable for those who enjoy children's historical fiction and authors such as Jacqueline Wilson, Katherine Woodfine and Emma Carroll.
Karen McCombie is a Scottish author of children's books and young adult novels. McCombie has published more than 100 books. In 2021, Waterstones described her as "one of children's fiction's most accomplished authors".
