TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orr,Stephen
AU  - Ide,Timmoty
TI  - The Lanternist
SN  - 9781925227840
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - [Adelaide], SA
PB  - MidnightSun Publishing
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Storytellers
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Magic
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Rescues
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Adventure and adventurers
KW  - Families
KW  - Parents
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - History
KW  - 1851-1901
KW  - Children's fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Children's stories
N1  - "The story of a storyteller"--Cover; 9+ years old
N2  - The slide clunks into the lantern, and Phantoms come alive on the wall. The father-and-son Magic Lantern team of Bert and Tom Eliot are masters of The Art of the Story. The only problem is that they are missing a wife and mother. Then one morning eleven-year-old Tom wakes to find his father missing, too. The Lanternist's apprentice is thrown out of home, forced to work for the arch-criminal Jimmy Sacks, arrested and imprisoned. Will he ever be able to escape with his new friend Max and make the long, flea-bitten, rat-infested journey to Sydney in search of his parents? The Lanternist is a story about stories, and how they show us a way through life, despite callous landladies, corrupt officials, criminal companions and the problems with living in incinerators. But mostly, it is about searching, and making your own endings. Celebrated author Stephen Orr's first foray into young adult literature is a thrilling historical adventure
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