The Shattering. Kathryn Lasky
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Название: The Shattering

Автор: Kathryn Lasky

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Природа и животные

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isbn: 9780008226831

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      First published in the USA by Scholastic Inc 2004

      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books 2007

      Text copyright © Kathryn Lasky 2004

      Illustrations copyright © Richard Cowdrey 2004

      The Kathryn Lasky and Richard Cowdrey assert the moral right to be identified as the author

      and illustrator of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007215218

      Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2016 ISBN: 9780008226831

      Version: 2016-12-01

      For Joy Peskin

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter Seven: The Sign of the Centipede

       Chapter Eight: Mum Waits for Me

       Chapter Nine: The Most Beautiful Mum in the World

       Chapter Ten: Eglantine Researches

       Chapter Eleven: Primrose’s Last Thought

       Chapter Twelve: A Gizzard Begins to Stir

       Chapter Thirteen: The Lucky Charm

       Chapter Fourteen: As a Gizzard Twitches

       Chapter Fifteen: Piece by Piece

       Chapter Sixteen: The Sacred Orb

       Chapter Seventeen: The Hostage Egg

       Chapter Eighteen: “It Cannot fail!”

       Chapter Nineteen: The Peg-out

       Chapter Twenty: A Crown of fire

       Chapter Twenty-One: The Gollymopes

       Chapter Twenty-Two: The Living Dead

       Chapter Twenty-Three: The Passing of the Claws

       About the Author

       Other Books By

       About the Publisher

      It was the same. That was her first thought.

       It looks just like the old fir tree, the one where Soren and I were hatched. And even the shape of the hollow’s opening where Mum and Da made their nest, a lopsided O – wasn’t that the exact shape?

      Eglantine knew she СКАЧАТЬ