The mud puddlers / Pamela Rushby.
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TextPublisher: Newtown, N.S.W. : Walker Books Australia, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 217 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760655808; 1760655805Subject(s): Mudlarking -- Juvenile fiction | Archaeologists -- Juvenile fiction | Mud flats -- Juvenile fiction | Time travel -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- London -- Juvenile fiction | London (England) -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Children's stories. | Time-travel fiction. | Action and adventure fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Twelve-year-old Nina is not happy. Her scientist parents are spending a year in Antarctica. And Nina's being sent to London to stay with her Aunt Bee, an intertidal archaeologist, who lives on a converted barge on the Thames. She's also a keen mud larker, combing the river mud for fascinating, long-forgotten articles from past lives. Nina arrives with an attitude. Her parents have never left her behind before. It takes time for her to settle in, helped by the MudPuddlers, a local group of enthusiastic amateur mud larks, and especially by Molly, an elderly MudPuddler living on a nearby barge. Molly draws Nina into the magic and mystery of the ancient river and its treasures. When she finds herself stranded in time, in the Blitz in 1940, Nina and a very unwilling fellow traveler, Tom, become runaways, fumbling their way across wartime England, desperate to return to London. Will they ever see their families again?
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Junior Fiction | JF RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111086079256 |
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9+ years.
Twelve-year-old Nina is not happy. Her scientist parents are spending a year in Antarctica. And Nina's being sent to London to stay with her Aunt Bee, an intertidal archaeologist, who lives on a converted barge on the Thames. She's also a keen mud larker, combing the river mud for fascinating, long-forgotten articles from past lives. Nina arrives with an attitude. Her parents have never left her behind before. It takes time for her to settle in, helped by the MudPuddlers, a local group of enthusiastic amateur mud larks, and especially by Molly, an elderly MudPuddler living on a nearby barge. Molly draws Nina into the magic and mystery of the ancient river and its treasures. When she finds herself stranded in time, in the Blitz in 1940, Nina and a very unwilling fellow traveler, Tom, become runaways, fumbling their way across wartime England, desperate to return to London. Will they ever see their families again?
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