| ISBN |
9781922400871 (hardback) |
| Classification |
JF MELL |
| Personal Name |
Mellor, Amelia |
| Title |
The bookseller's apprentice / Amelia Mellor. |
| Production & Copyright Details |
Boonwurrung Country ; South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Physical Description |
310 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| Series |
Grandest bookshop in the world |
| Note |
Prequel to: The Grandest Bookshop in the World. |
| Summary Note |
Twelve-year-old Billy Pyke has a talent for sorting things out, whether it's his chaotic family home or the busy book stall at Paddy's Market. In 1871, the market is the loud, smelly, marvellous heart of Melbourne, and Billy is delighted to work at the book stall there for the eccentric Mr Cole. When his new friend Kezia warns him of a sinister magician called the Obscurosmith, Billy can't believe her stories of magical deals gone horribly wrong, until he sees them happening. And the night that the Obscurosmith crosses a terrifying and dangerous line, Billy realises something: if he wants the Obscurosmith stopped, he'll have to do it himself. |
| Target audience note |
9-12 years old. |
| Subject-Personal Name |
Cole, E. W.(Edward William),1832-1918 -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject-Corporate Name |
Eastern Market (Melbourne, Vic.) -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Bookstores -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Juvenile fiction |
| Markets -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Juvenile fiction |
| Siblings -- Juvenile fiction |
| Friendship -- Juvenile fiction |
| Magic -- Juvenile fiction |
| Magicians -- Juvenile fiction |
| Swindlers and swindling -- Juvenile fiction |
| Apprentices -- Juvenile fiction |
| Booksellers and bookselling -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories |
| Australian fiction |
| Subject - Geographic Name |
Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 1851-1901 -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject - Genre |
Fantasy fiction |
| Added Entry - Personal Name |
Mellor, Amelia Grandest bookshop in the world. |
