by Katherine Rundell · Faber & Faber Children’s · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571280599
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«Rooftoppers» is Katherine Rundell's young adult adventure novel, published by Faber & Faber Children's in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Sophie was found as a baby floating in the sea after a shipwreck and raised by Charles, an eccentric scholar. Convinced her mother is still alive, she flees with him to Paris, where she meets the rooftoppers, children who live on the rooftops. Together they roam the city to find her mother without the authorities sending her back to London.
English edition of the novel winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Originally published in 2013. Recommended reading from age 9.
For young readers and teenagers from age 9 who enjoy adventures set in Victorian Paris, with touches of fantasy and emotion.
Katherine Rundell is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week, Poetry Please, Seriously.... and Private Passions.
