Saffy's Angel
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Saffy's Angel was the winner of the 2002 Whitbread Award and is the first novel in Hilary McKay's hilarious Casson Family series.After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests her a stone angel – a relic from the childhood she never knew – Saffy knows she has to find it. Realizing that Siena holds the key, she stows away on a car trip to Italy.The rest of the family are engaged in their own wacky projects: Caddy, a hopeless student, is revising for her A levels and desperately trying to pass her driving test. Indigo, the only boy in the Casson family, is determined to rid himself of his fear of heights. And the youngest, Rose, a budding artist, has a knack for baiting her pompous dad, with entertaining results . . .Follow the family's adventures in the rest of the beloved series: Indigo's Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose and Caddy's World.
CONTRIBUTORS: Hilary McKay
EAN: 9781529033212
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 176 g
HEIGHT: 196 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Adoption, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Book Themes:
Italy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Adoption / fostering, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Saffy's Angel was the winner of the 2002 Whitbread Award and is the first novel in Hilary McKay's hilarious Casson Family series.After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests her a stone angel – a relic from the childhood she never knew – Saffy knows she has to find it. Realizing that Siena holds the key, she stows away on a car trip to Italy.The rest of the family are engaged in their own wacky projects: Caddy, a hopeless student, is revising for her A levels and desperately trying to pass her driving test. Indigo, the only boy in the Casson family, is determined to rid himself of his fear of heights. And the youngest, Rose, a budding artist, has a knack for baiting her pompous dad, with entertaining results . . .Follow the family's adventures in the rest of the beloved series: Indigo's Star, Permanent Rose, Caddy Ever After, Forever Rose and Caddy's World.
CONTRIBUTORS: Hilary McKay
EAN: 9781529033212
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 176 g
HEIGHT: 196 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Adoption, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
WIDTH: 129 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Italy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Adoption / fostering, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Hilary McKay won the Costa Children's Book Award for The Skylarks' War, the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Exiles, and the Smarties and the Whitbread Award for The Exiles in Love and Saffy's Angel respectively. She is also the author of Straw Into Gold, A Time of Green Magic and The Swallows' Flight, a companion novel to The Skylarks' War, among many critically-acclaimed titles. Hilary studied Botany and Zoology at the University of St Andrews, and worked as a biochemist before the draw of the pen became too strong and she decided to become a full-time writer. Hilary lives in Derbyshire with her family.
