Description
| Product ID: | 9781800900806 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Clockwork Queen |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Bunzl, Lia Visirin |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Crime & mystery fiction (Children's / Teenage), Science fiction (Children's / Teenage), Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Historical fiction (Children's / Teenage), People & places (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Sophie must play the role of the Clockwork Queen in order to free her father in this page-turning historical adventure from Cogheart author Peter Bunzl. Sophie must play the role of the Clockwork Queen in order to free her father in this page-turning historical adventure from Cogheart author Peter Bunzl.Chess prodigy Sophie Peshka inherited her love of the game from her grandmaster father. But now that he has been imprisoned in the dungeons of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg by powerful Empress Catherine the Great, Sophie must use all her strategic skill and cunning to help him escape.Part of Sophie’s plan involves an incredible chess-playing automaton called the Clockwork Queen, but will the Queen be able to outwit the Empress in a game where the stakes are a matter of life and death? |
| Imprint Name: | Barrington Stoke Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-02 |