Rooftoppers

By: Katherine Rundell, Terry Fan (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 3 June 2014

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Paperback
304 Pages

Age
8 - 12

Grade
3 - 7

Dimensions(cm)
19.5 x 13.5 x 2.5

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&;The beauty of sky, music, and the belief in &;extraordinary things&; triumph in this whimsical and magical tale&; (Publishers Weekly) about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris.

Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck that left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive&;but &;almost impossible&; means &;still possible.&; And you should never ignore a possible.

So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian, threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, they takes matters into their own hands and flee to Paris to look for Sophie&;s mother, starting with the only clue they have&;the address of the cello maker.

Evading the French authorities, she meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers&;urchins who live in the hidden spaces above the city. Together they scour the city in a search for Sophie&;s mother&;but can they find her before Sophie is caught and sent back to London? Or, more importantly, before she loses hope?

Phillip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials series, calls Rooftoppers &;the work of a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination.&;

Industry Reviews

* A glorious adventure...the story is magic.-- "Booklist, starred review"
* Brava! This witty, inventively poetic, fairy-tale-like adventure shimmers with love, magic and music.-- "Kirkus Reviews, starred review"
* The beauty of sky, music, and the belief in "extraordinary things" triumph in this whimsical and magical tale.-- "Publishers Weekly, starred review"
"Some stories unfurl with such elegant wit that you feel the author must have been smiling constantly while typing away. Such is the case with Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers, a sparkling and lovely novel.-- "Wall Street Journal"
Rooftoppers drew me in immediately and carried me along straight to the end with its original voice and lively story.--Sharon Creech, Newbery-award winning author of Walk Two Moons
"Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers, like her previous novel Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms, is the work of a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination. I admire her novels very much, and I hope they find the success they deserve. I'm certainly looking forward to her next.--Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials series
Katherine Rundell's Rooftoppers is a confection of lyrical prose. Bold imaginative leaps carry the reader from one Parisian rooftop to the next in this unique and beautifully written tale of a girl in search of the mother whom everyone else believes is dead.--Maryrose Wood, author of The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place series

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