Sto caricando le informazioni...

The House at the Edge of Magic

di Amy Sparkes

Serie: The House at the Edge of Magic (1)

Utenti	Recensioni	Popolarità	Media voti	Citazioni
70	2	380,458	(3.17)	1
Fantasy. Juvenile Fiction. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML: "Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realizing it." Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast �?? a young wizard who's particularly competitive at hopscotch �?? and a hideous troll housekeeper who's emotionally attached to his feather duster. They have been placed under an extraordinary spell, which they are desperate for Nine to break �?? and if she can, maybe they can offer her a new life in return... "A Diana Wynne Jones-ish adventure fizzing with imagination. Such fun �?? I loved it!" �?? Sinead O'Hart "A wonder-filled book that revels in magic and mayhem." �?? Abi Elphinstone "Wildly imaginative and relentlessly entertaining. It is a story like no other and I absolutely adored it!" �?? Da… (altro)

tutti i membri

▾Utenti

Aggiunto di recente da

poornima27, LilMissOutsider, TheHallows, ttabiai1, libreriadiye, Spunkypineapple, Bookdragon27, bibliotecaiccaluso, melcook21

▾Etichette

1 (1) Audiobooks.com (1) borrow (1) BW-WH-STOCK-APR-23 (1) CHO OH 0 OO 4 (1) da leggere (9) Fantasy (4) favorite-middle-grade (1) House at the Edge of Magic (1) libib(4262021) (1) Libri (1) libri per bambini (1) maghi (1) magia (3) Maledizione (1) Narrativa (3) narrativa fantasy (1) not american (1) per bambini (1) protagonista femminile (1) read in 2022 (1) returned to library (1) scuola media (4) sentient house (1) shelf 2_8 (1) study (1) to-read-fantasy (1) top-priority (1) Via Libby (1) YA (1)

Traduzione delle etichette attiva

▾Consigli di LibraryThing

▾Liste

Nessuno

▾Ti piacerà?

Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

▾Conversazioni (Su link)

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

» Vedi 1 citazione

▾Recensioni di utenti

data ▼ | voti

Mostra 2 di 2

1. First book in a three-part series, followed by The Tower at the End of Time & The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond
2. Contains fantastical creatures, including a housekeeping troll, a sword-waving spoon, and a hopscotching wizard
3. Author interviews: https://www.timeoutmuscat.com/kids/books-2/463159-interview-meet-childrens-autho... and https://www.wordsandpics.org/2020/08/interview-amy-sparkes.html
4. Discussion guides: https://www.walker.co.uk/UserFiles/file/The%20House%20at%20the%20Edge%20of%20Mag... and https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/the-house-at-the-edge-of-magic-discussion-...
5. Found family trope
6. Nine's dynamic character - How is Nine's character different at the end of the book compared to the beginning?
7. This book can be described as a children's/middle-aged version of The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (

)

juliasmith22 | Mar 7, 2024 |

This was such a fun read with wonderfully quirky characters. My kids and I fell in love with Erik the housekeeping troll, whose favourite possession is his feather duster. Definitely one to buy rather than just borrow.

ellecarterneal | Nov 10, 2021 |

data ▼ | voti

Mostra 2 di 2

▾Recensioni da fonti esterne

nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione

▾Altri autori

» Aggiungi altri autori

▾Relazioni tra serie ed opera

Appartiene alle Serie

The House at the Edge of Magic (1)

▾Premi e riconoscimenti

guarda la cronologia

▾Informazioni generali

Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.

Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.

Titolo canonico

Titolo originale

Titoli alternativi

Data della prima edizione

2021-01-07

Personaggi

Luoghi significativi

Eventi significativi

Film correlati

Epigrafe

Dedica

Incipit

Citazioni

Ultime parole

Nota di disambiguazione

Redattore editoriale

Elogi

Lingua originale

DDC/MDS Canonico

LCC canonico

▾Riferimenti

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese

Nessuno

▾Descrizioni del libro

Fantasy. Juvenile Fiction. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:

"Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realizing it."
Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast �?? a young wizard who's particularly competitive at hopscotch �?? and a hideous troll housekeeper who's emotionally attached to his feather duster. They have been placed under an extraordinary spell, which they are desperate for Nine to break �?? and if she can, maybe they can offer her a new life in return...
"A Diana Wynne Jones-ish adventure fizzing with imagination. Such fun �?? I loved it!" �?? Sinead O'Hart
"A wonder-filled book that revels in magic and mayhem." �?? Abi Elphinstone
"Wildly imaginative and relentlessly entertaining. It is a story like no other and I absolutely adored it!" �?? Da

▾Descrizioni da biblioteche

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

▾Descrizione degli utenti di LibraryThing

Descrizione del libro

Riassunto haiku