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The ghosts of heaven / Marcus Sedgwick.

Sedgwick, Marcus, 1968-2022 (author.).

Summary:

Four linked stories chronicle madness, obsession, and creation through the ages. Beginning with the cave-drawings of a young girl on the brink of creating the earliest form of writing, Sedgwick traverses history, plunging into the seventeenth century witch hunts and a 1920s insane asylum where a mad poet's obsession with spirals seems to be about to unhinge the world of the doctor trying to save him. Sedgwick moves beyond the boundaries of historical fiction and into the future in the book's final section, set upon a spaceship voyaging to settle another world for the first time.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781626721258
  • ISBN: 1626721254
  • ISBN: 9781250073679
  • ISBN: 1250073677
  • Physical Description: 359 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First American edition
  • Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2014 by Orion Children's Books, London."
Formatted Contents Note:
Whispers in the dark -- Witch in the water -- Easiest room in hell -- Song of destiny.
Target Audience Note:
920L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 6.1 12 171392.
Awards Note:
Michael L. Printz Award Honor, 2016

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Subject:
Space and time > Fiction.
Cave paintings > Fiction.
Trials (Witchcraft) > Fiction.
Asylums > Fiction.
Poets > Fiction.
Interstellar travel > Fiction.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Historical fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Short stories.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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