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Castle in the stars Book one, The space race of 1869 /

A year after his mother disappeared in her hot air balloon, Seraphin and his father receive a clue that sends them to a Bavarian castle where lurks a force that would stop at nothing to conquer the stars.

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Main Author:	Alice, Alex, 1974- (Author, Illustrator)
Other Authors:	Smith, Anne (Translator), Smith, Owen (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language:	English French
Published:	New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press, 2017.
Edition:	First American edition.
Series:	Castle in the stars ; 1.
Subjects:	Outer space > Exploration > Juvenile fiction. Space flight > Juvenile fiction. Adventure and adventurers > Juvenile fiction. Air pilots > Juvenile fiction. Space travel > Juvenile fiction. Graphic novels > Juvenile.
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Summary:	A year after his mother disappeared in her hot air balloon, Seraphin and his father receive a clue that sends them to a Bavarian castle where lurks a force that would stop at nothing to conquer the stars.
Item Description:	Chiefly illustrations. "Originally published in 2014 in French by Rue de Sèvres as Le château des étoiles - 1869: La conquête de l'espace - volume I"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	60 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm.
Audience:	Ages 10-14.
ISBN:	9781626724938 1626724938
Author Notes:	Alex Alice is a French graphic novelist, working in France and sometimes the U.S. His works have been translated into more than fifteen languages. Born in 1974, he grew up in the south of France and had the chance to travel around Europe, where he developed a lifelong passion for the ruins and castles of the medieval and romantic ages. This experience influenced his art, from the grim setting of his esoteric thriller The Third Testament (co-written with Xavier Dorison and published by Titan Comics) to the primeval, mythic world found in Siegfried, an operatic re-telling of the northern saga of the great dragon slayer (published by Boom Entertainment). In Castle in the Stars, he draws on Jules Verne and nineteenth-century romanticism to create a watercolor world of adventure and wonder to enchant adults and younger readers alike.