Book
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Oddity
Call Number
- J BROW (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Somerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, 2021
Physical Description
351 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Summary
It's the early 1800s, and Clover travels the impoverished borderlands of the Unified States with her father, a physician. See to the body before you, he teaches her, but Clover can't help becoming distracted by bigger things, including the coming war between the US and France, ignited by a failed Louisiana Purchase, and the terrifying vermin, cobbled together from dead animals and spare parts, who patrol the woods. Most of all, she is consumed with interest for Oddities, ordinary objects with extraordinary abilities, such as a Teapot that makes endless amounts of tea and an Ice Hook that freezes everything it touches. Clover's father has always disapproved of Oddities, but when he is murdered, Clover embarks on a perilous mission to protect the one secret Oddity he left behind. And as she uncovers the truth about her parents and her past, Clover emerges as a powerful agent of history. Here is an action-filled American fantasy of alternate history to rival the great British fantasies in ideas and scope.
Subjects
- Monsters > Juvenile fiction.
- Magic > Juvenile fiction.
- Physicians > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
- Alternative histories (Fiction) > Juvenile fiction.
- Collectibles > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers > Death > Juvenile fiction.
- Quests (Expeditions) > Juvenile fiction.
- Magic > Fiction.
- Collectibles > Fiction.
- Physicians > Crimes against > Fiction.
- Fathers > Death > Fiction.
- Quests (Expeditions) > Fiction.
- United States > Social conditions > To 1865 > Juvenile fiction.
- United States > Foreign relations > France > Juvenile fiction.
- United States > Social conditions > To 1865 > Fiction.
- United States > Foreign relations > France > Fiction.