A Hundred Million Francs
$21.78
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2016
Summary
Reissued in A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime
A bunch of scruffy urchin kids in the backstreets of Paris outwit thieves to uncover the whereabouts of millions of francs stolen from the Paris-Ventimiglia express. Gaby is the leader, but it is super-cool Marion with her collection of stray dogs who is the heart of the gang.
It all begins when a local villain offers the children a fortune for their ‘horse’ - a headless rocking horse, given old tricycle wheels that they…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141368719 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141368713 |
| Author: | Berna Paul |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | A Puffin Book |
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About The Author
Berna Paul
Paul Berna (real name Jean Sabran) was born in 1908 in Hyres, France. He was a journalist and writer in the 1930s, and from 1952 wrote children’s books under the pseudonym Paul Berna. A Hundred Million Francs, which became his most famous book, was adapted into a film by Walt Disney, called The Horse without a Head. He was married with two sons. He died in Paris in 1994.
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