The assassination of Brangwain Spurge
Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwa...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Somerville, Massachusetts :
Candlewick Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them -- and war for their nations. |
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| Item Description: | "By order of the Order of Clean Hand, this book printed at the Sign of the Flam by Candlewick Press." -- Title page. |
| Physical Description: | 516 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0763698229 9780763698225 |
| Author Notes: | Eugene Yelchin is a Russian American artist best known as a creator of books for children and young adults. He is the coauthor and illustrator of The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge , a National Book Award finalist, and the illustrator of The Rooster Prince of Breslov , which won a National Jewish Book Award, and Won Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku , which has received more than thirty honors. He is the author-illustrator of the middle-grade novel Breaking Stalin's Nose , which received a Newbery Honor and has been translated into ten languages, and the middle-grade memoir The Genius Under the Table , which was an Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Honor Book. In 2026, he won a National Jewish Book Award for his young adult memoir, I Wish I Didn't Have to Tell You This . Eugene Yelchin lives in California. |
