TY - BOOK AU - Orr,Stephen AU - Ide,Timmoty TI - The Lanternist SN - 9781925227840 (paperback) U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2021/// CY - Adelaide, SA PB - MidnightSun Publishing KW - Historical fiction KW - Storytellers KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Friendship KW - Storytelling KW - Magic KW - Fiction KW - Prisoners KW - Rescues KW - Missing persons KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Families KW - Parents KW - Children's fiction KW - fast KW - Australian fiction KW - Children's stories KW - New South Wales KW - Sydney KW - Sydney (N.S.W.) KW - History KW - 1851-1901 KW - AUS historical fiction (Australia) KW - Children's stories, Australian KW - lcgft N1 - "The story of a storyteller"--Cover; 9+ years old N2 - The slide clunks into the lantern, and Phantoms come alive on the wall. The father-and-son Magic Lantern team of Bert and Tom Eliot are masters of The Art of the Story. The only problem is that they are missing a wife and mother. Then one morning eleven-year-old Tom wakes to find his father missing, too. The Lanternist's apprentice is thrown out of home, forced to work for the arch-criminal Jimmy Sacks, arrested and imprisoned. Will he ever be able to escape with his new friend Max and make the long, flea-bitten, rat-infested journey to Sydney in search of his parents? The Lanternist is a story about stories, and how they show us a way through life, despite callous landladies, corrupt officials, criminal companions and the problems with living in incinerators. But mostly, it is about searching, and making your own endings. Celebrated author Stephen Orr's first foray into young adult literature is a thrilling historical adventure ER -