The Lanternist / Stephen Orr ; illustrated by Timothy Ide.
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TextPublisher: [Adelaide], SA : MidnightSun Publishing, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 397 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925227840Subject(s): Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction | Storytellers -- Juvenile fiction | Friendship -- Juvenile fiction | Magic -- Juvenile fiction | Prisoners -- Juvenile fiction | Rescues -- Juvenile fiction | Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction | Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction | Families -- Juvenile fiction | Parents -- Juvenile fiction | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1851-1901 -- Children's fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Children's stories.DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Junior Fiction | JF ORR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111082153857 |
"The story of a storyteller"--Cover.
9+ years old.
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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