Description
The biggest children’s book of the year!The Midwatch is the long-awaited new middle-grade novel from internationally bestselling authorillustrator Judith Rossell, creator of the multi-award-winning novel Withering-by-Sea.
The city was stuffed full of wickedness, everyone knew that
Banished to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways and Unwanted Girls, Maggie Fishbone is sure shes in for a life of drudgery. But she quickly discovers theres more to the Midwatch than meets the eye
The city shimmers with jewels and secrets, and soon Maggie is thrust into an adventure that takes her deep underground, high above the clouds and face to face with danger itself.
Turn the page and prepare to be drawn into a lavishly illustrated world, brimming with mystery, unlikely heroines and an adventure as big as the sky.
PRAISE FORTHE MIDWATCH
Gasp-out-loud brilliant!An absolute treasure of a book.
KATRINA NANNESTAD,bestselling author of We Are Wolves
I was hooked from the beginning … Move over Lemony Snicket!
KAREN FOXLEE, award-winning author of Lennys Book of Everything
Welcome all treasure-hunters and mystery-solvers to the Midwatch Institute [where] disobedient girls are not to be underestimated!’
AMELIA MELLOR, award-winning author of The Grandest Bookshop in the World
A cracking concept, sensational characters and absolutely smashing pictures: TheMidwatch is the cats pyjamas!
JACLYN MORIARTY, award-winning author of the Kingdoms and Empires series
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