A murmuration of starlings / Franny Billingsley.
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TextPublisher: South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Description: 397 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922626387Subject(s): Daggers -- Juvenile fiction | Riddles -- Juvenile fiction | Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction | Brigands and robbers -- Juvenile fiction | Foster parents -- Juvenile fiction | Escapes -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Action and adventure fiction. | Fantasy fiction. | Young adult fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: Robber Girl doesn't have a name. Or a home. But she does have a dagger. And she has Gentleman Jack. Together, they are wild. Gentleman Jack has two tasks and he needs Robber Girl with him to complete them. But when a heist to steal back Gentleman Jack's gold goes wrong, Robber Girl is trapped. Instead of sleeping out in the ravine with cliffs and caves and a river, she must stay in a cottage with keys and doorknobs and a dollhouse. A cottage that threatens to tame her. Robber Girl waits for the right moment to start her new task: she will break Gentleman Jack out of jail. But the longer Robber Girl waits, the more the cottage starts to feel like home. Torn between loyalty to Gentleman Jack and the family who have taken her in, between fighting and trusting, between being wild and being tame, Robber Girl must unravel who she was and who she is now. But when you're a mystery even to yourself, discovering who you are might be the hardest task of them all.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Young Adult | JF BIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111083764637 |
Originally published as: Robber girl. Candlewick Press, 2021.
Adolescent.
Robber Girl doesn't have a name. Or a home. But she does have a dagger. And she has Gentleman Jack. Together, they are wild. Gentleman Jack has two tasks and he needs Robber Girl with him to complete them. But when a heist to steal back Gentleman Jack's gold goes wrong, Robber Girl is trapped. Instead of sleeping out in the ravine with cliffs and caves and a river, she must stay in a cottage with keys and doorknobs and a dollhouse. A cottage that threatens to tame her. Robber Girl waits for the right moment to start her new task: she will break Gentleman Jack out of jail. But the longer Robber Girl waits, the more the cottage starts to feel like home. Torn between loyalty to Gentleman Jack and the family who have taken her in, between fighting and trusting, between being wild and being tame, Robber Girl must unravel who she was and who she is now. But when you're a mystery even to yourself, discovering who you are might be the hardest task of them all.
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