A threepage table of contents with very intriguing chapter titles. It isnt until teo faints in an old bookstore and finds a book called the key to secret city that she. Savage hyenalike creatures threaten venice the ravageurs are on the prowl and seizing men, women and children. The undrowned child kindle edition by lovric, michelle. An encounter with a mysterious book and a boy in a bookshop take her between the linings. An encounter with a mysterious book and a boy in a bookshop take her between the linings into a dystopian world of mermaids, resurrected historical characters. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your.
On the night of 30 june 1846 talinas parents disappear and she and her cat, drusilla, are forced to go and live with her guardian and his three savage dogs in his lonely tower in the northernmost edge of the city. In the year 1899, the evil spirit of venices ancient enemy, bajamonte tiepolo, whose bones are buried deep in the grand canal, rises to seek. And where a book, the key to the secret city, leads teo straight into the heart of the. Full text of the dramatic works of william shakspeare. I thought for a young adult horror book this was really great. But who is the undrowned child destined to save venice. The undrowned child by michelle lovric, 9781444000047, available at. I am an adult, and therefore not the target audience for this book, but i read and enjoy a lot of childrens and ya fantasy. She has published three novels for adults, of which the remedy was longlisted for the orange prize for fiction. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the undrowned child. Teodora has lived in naples with her adoptive parents for all of her eleven years, but she has always had a strange urge to visit venice. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Set in venice at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this novel, lovrics first for children, inhabits a fantasy time and place based upon the citys long, mysterious and waterthreatened history. For a fantasy world to work it must obey its own internal logic, and for me undrowned child fails to do this.