The Marvels / Brian Selznick.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2015Copyright date: �2015Edition: First editionDescription: 665 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780545448680 (hardcover)
- 0545448689 (hardcover)
- Shipwreck survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction
- Theatrical companies -- Juvenile fiction
- Recluses -- Juvenile fiction
- Shipwreck survival -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Theatrical companies -- Comic books, strips, etc
- London (England) -- Juvenile fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction
- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Family life -- England -- London -- Fiction
- Actors and actresses -- Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
- Theaters -- Fiction
- London (England) -- History -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Fiction
- Actors
- Families
- Theater
- England -- London
- [Fic] 23
- PZ7.S4654 Mar 2015
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Park Branch Youth Services KIDS' FICTION | Juvenile Fiction | SELZNICK B (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31624003665650 |
Told in two stand-alone stories, the first nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, and the second in text. Inspired by the Dennis Severs' House in London.
The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits and ghostly presences, captivates Joseph and leads him on a search for clues about the house, his family, and the past.
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