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When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.

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Main Author: DiCamillo, Kate
Corporate Author: Brilliance Audio (Firm)
Other Authors: Stevenson, Juliet (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2009.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Orphans > Juvenile fiction.
Missing children > Juvenile fiction.
Elephants > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Children's audiobooks.
Adventure fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Item Description:Title from container.
Compact discs.
Duration: 2:55:00.
Physical Description:3 sound discs (2 hr., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience:Ages 9+.
ISBN:9781441849038
1441849033
9781441889058
1441889051
Author Notes:Kate DiCamillo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 25, 1964. She received an English degree from the University of Florida. At the age of thirty, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and worked for a book warehouse on the children's floor. After working there for four and a half years, she fell in love with children's books and began writing. DiCamillo wrote the 2001 Newbery-honor book, Because of Winn-Dixie, which was adapted into a film in 2005. In 2004, she won the Newbery Medal for The Tale of Despereaux, which was also adapted into a movie in 2008, and for Flora and Ulysses in 2013. Her other works include the Mercy Watson series, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and The Magician's Elephant. She was named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress for the term 2014-2015.

Kate's title, Raymie Nightingale, mde the New York Times bestseller list in 2016.


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