Feather Boy
Nicky Singer
Sold by Porcupine Books, Ilford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 20 April 2005
Used - Soft cover
Condition: Used - Fine
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Add to basketSold by Porcupine Books, Ilford, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 20 April 2005
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCollins 2002 First Edition First Printing (Paper) Page edges lightly browned else Fine book ''. Robert is the class victim, the guy who's never picked for the team. so no-one is more surprised than Robert himself when a strange old lady sends him on a quest to solve the mystery of derelict Chance House. Legend has it that a boy once fell to his death from an upper window. To get the truth, Robert must learn what it really means to fly.'' Blue Peter book of the Year.
Seller Inventory # 52435
Robert Nobel, the school pariah, triumphs over his own fears and the school bully, in this extraordinary tale of self-empowerment, legend and death.
Robert is a boy who can do anything – or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesn’t think so, knowing as he does that he is the school geek.
But something compels him to do what Edith asks – to visit old Chance House, where a boy once fell to his death from the top floor flat, to confront his fears and find some answers.
Niker the bully thinks this is a great laugh. He challenges Robert to spend the night at Chance House with him – but there the balance of power changes, and it is Robert who proves to be the stronger.
Niker feels threatened by the change – and when he finds out Robert’s secret obsession, to make the dying Edith Sorrel a coat of feathers like in the old legend of the Firebird, he knows just how to wrest his old power back. But just how important is the coat of feathers? Could it really save Edith’s life?
Nicky Singer was born in 1956 and has worked in publishing, the arts and television. She was co-founder and co-director of Performing Arts Labs, a charity dedicated to training new writers for theatre, screen and opera. In 1995 she presented BBC2’s highly acclaimed documentary series on women’s fertility, “Labours of Eve”. In 2000, Nicky was made a board member of the South East Arts Board. Nicky lives in Brighton with her husband and their two young sons and a daughter.
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