King of Shadows

Informationen zum Autor Susan Cooper is a world-renowned author of children's books. Born and brought up in England, she worked as a journalist before moving to America, where she now lives. Her classic The Dark Is Rising sequence has won the Newbery Medal and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her Boggart titles have won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Smarties Prize. King of Shadows was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. As well as writing novels, Susan Cooper has written for the theatre and for television. Her website is at www.thelostland.com and her Facebook is at www.facebook.com/SusanCooperFanPage. Klappentext Susan Cooper is a world-renowned author of children's books. Born and brought up in England, she worked as a journalist before moving to America, where she now lives. Her fabulous The Dark Is Rising sequence has won the Newbery Medal and was twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her Boggart titles have won the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award and been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Smarties Prize. King of Shadows was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. As well as writing novels, Susan Cooper writes successful plays, and screenplays for film and television. Zusammenfassung I lay very still, with all my senses telling me that I had gone mad. The plague? Nobody's had the plague for centuries ...Nathan Field, a talented young actor, arrives at the newly rebuilt Globe Theatre in London to play Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream. As rehearsals begin, eerie echoes of the past begin to haunt Nat, and he falls sick.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Cooper
• Publisher: Red Fox
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2010
• EAN: 9781849412742
• ISBN: 978-1-84941-274-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 200 mm x 16 mm
• Series: RED FOX
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Fantasy / Historical, Science fiction (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, c 1500 to c 1600, Interest age: from c 12 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Time travel, 1558–1603 (Elizabethan period)