Return of the emerald skull
by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
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Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad on a mission: to collect a parcel from the docks and deliver it to a famous school. But dark forces have been released and, as Barnaby returns to Grassington Hall School, he is about to find out the full extent of the horror. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
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Boarding schools, Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Messengers, Mystery and detective stories, Mysticism, Schools, Supernatural, Paranormal fiction, Great britain, history, 19th century, fiction, Children's fiction, Barnaby Grimes (Fictitious character), Heroes, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Schools, fiction, Ships, fiction, Great britain, fictionPlaces
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Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
2014, Fickling Books, David
in English
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Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
2012, Random House Children's Books
in English
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Return of the emerald skull
2009, David Fickling Books
in English
- 1st American ed.
0385751281 9780385751285
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Return of the Emerald Skull
2009, Random House Children's Books
Electronic resource
in English
0375891692 9780375891694
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Barnaby Grimes isa tick-tock lad, running errands in his city, day and night, and high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. This is a fantastic romp through a Dickensian-style city, with a wonderful new hero in the guise of Barnaby.After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the local schoolmaster, Barnaby thinks he's earned a moment to sit on the rooftops and eat his favorite pastry. But soon he realizes that all is not well at the school--but is the problem quite as he expects it? A gruesome tale of a school overrun by a terrible curse--who will survive?Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell are the creators of the bestselling Edge Chronicles series and the Far-Flung Adventures.From the Hardcover edition.
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