Gideon tries to earn money by stealing ice from the palace ponds to sell to the palace cook. Spotted by guards, he hides in the room of the little Duchess. She lives with only a mechanical duchess for company and is eager to help Gideon escape - as long as she can run away with him, leaving the mechanical duchess in her place.
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Susan Gates worked as a teacher for ten years and then started writing full time. She is a winner of the Sheffield Children's Book Award for Beware the Killer Coat and has twice been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal. Susan lives in County Durham.
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