The Lanternist / Stephen Orr ; illustrated by Timothy Ide.
Publication details: Adelaide, SA : MidnightSun Publishing, 2021.Description: 397 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781925227840 (paperback)
- 1851-1901
- Historical fiction
- Storytellers -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction
- Magic -- Fiction
- Prisoners -- Fiction
- Rescues -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Parents -- Fiction
- Storytelling -- Children's fiction
- Storytellers -- Children's fiction
- Families -- Children's fiction
- Missing persons -- Children's fiction
- Friendship -- Children's fiction
- Magic -- Children's fiction
- Prisoners -- Children's fiction
- Rescues -- Children's fiction
- Families
- Friendship
- Magic
- Missing persons
- Prisoners
- Rescues
- Storytellers
- Storytelling
- Australian fiction
- Children's stories
- Magic -- Juvenile fiction
- Prisoners -- Juvenile fiction
- Rescues -- Juvenile fiction
- Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Parents -- Juvenile fiction
- New South Wales -- Sydney
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1851-1901 -- Children's fiction
- AUS historical fiction (Australia)
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Junior collection | ORR | Available | 063700 |
"The story of a storyteller"--Cover.
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.
9+ years old.