01850nam a22003137i 4500 171049 171049 PPAK 20190131152235.0 190131t20052018enk||||g |||| 00| 1 eng d 9781509842339 RM51.90 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 823 823 HAR G Hardinge, Frances, author. 1973- Fly by NIGHT / FRANCES HARDINGE London : Macmillan Children's Books, 2018 ©2005 435 pages, [13 pages] : 20 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume In a fractured Realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and religious tyrrany, a 12-year-old orphan and a homicidal goose become the accidental heroes of a revolution. Mosca has spent her life in a miserable hamlet, where her father was banished for writing inflammatory books about tolerance and freedom. Now he is dead and Mosca is on the run after unintentionally setting fire to a mill. With a swindler named Eponymous Clent, she heads for the city of Mandelion. A born liar, Mosca lives by her wits in a world of highwaymen and smugglers, dangerously insane rulers in ludicrous wigs, secret agents and radical plotters. She is recruited as a spy by the fanatical Mabwick Toke, leader of the Guild of Stationers, who fears losing his control over the publication of every book in the state. Mosca's activities reveal a plot to force a rule of terror on the Realm, and merry mayhem soon leads to murder. For middle to upper primary school age FROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING English fiction Orphans stories Swindlers and swindling Fiction Geese Fiction ddc B 0 0 PPAK G 2019-02-17 823 HAR A01592547 2019-02-17 00:00:00 B 0 0 PPAK G 2019-02-17 1 823 HAR A01592548 2019-03-09 00:00:00 2019-03-07 B 0 0 SP G 2019-02-17 1 1 823 HAR A01592549 2025-05-27 13:50:11 2025-04-23 B 0 0 LW G 2019-02-17 1 823 HAR A01592550 2019-07-14 00:00:00 2019-06-20 B 0 0 KM G 2019-02-17 1 823 HAR A01592551 2019-10-07 00:00:00 2019-08-25 B