by Marie Rutkoski · Nocturna Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493801366
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«El gabinete de curiosidades» is the young adult fantasy novel by Marie Rutkoski, published by Nocturna Ediciones in paperback (392 pages, in Spanish).
Petra, a twelve-year-old girl and daughter of an inventor, discovers that the astronomical clock built by her father for Prince Rodolfo hides a mechanism capable of manipulating the weather. When her town suffers strange phenomena, Petra decides to travel to Prague with Astrophil, her talking spider, to infiltrate the prince's castle and destroy the clock's magic before it causes more damage.
It is the first installment of the saga «Las crónicas de Kronos». Its original English title is «The Cabinet of Wonders».
Recommended for young readers aged 11 and up and for those seeking fantasy and adventure with a child protagonist.
Marie K. Rutkoski in Hinsdale, Illinois is an American children's writer, and professor at Brooklyn College. She has three younger siblings. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. in English with a minor in French in 1999, and then her English M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003 and 2006 respectively. She lives in Brooklyn with her family and two cats, Cloud and Firefly.
