The Shadows of Rookhaven
$25.53
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2022
Summary
Shadows are gathering over Rookhaven. It is the time of The Great Configuration, a once in a hundred years event. Family and monsters descend on Rookhaven from all over the country to take part. But amid the guests there is an interloper. One who is disguised and has an eye on their destruction.
Meanwhile Mirabelle - part human, part monster - discovers that to those from outside Rookhaven she is not considered family at all… and, forced to search further afield for knowledge of her t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529065084 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529065089 |
| Author: | Pádraig Kenny |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Children's Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 135mm x 215mm |
| Audience Age: | 9-11 |
Critics Review
One of the most startlingly original children’s books I’ve read in years. It feels like P
One of the most startlingly original children’s books I’ve read in years. It feels like Pádraig Kenny with Edward Bettison’s mesmerizing illustrations, has created a whole new genre – Piers Torday, on The Monsters of Rookhaven
Pádraig Kenny
Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer from County Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a librarian’s assistant, he now writes full-time. His first novel Tin was a Waterstones Book of the Month and was nominated for the Carnegie, as well as being shortlisted for the Irish Book Award and several regional awards. He is married with four children. The Monsters of Rookhaven is his first novel with Macmillan Children’s Books.
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