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Stealing the sword

At the flea market nine-and-a-half-year-old Chase and his younger sister Ava acquire an old suitcase filled with rows of carefully packed strange objects, and when they handle one of the objects (a dragon-headed doorknob) they find themselves in King Arthur's castle, on a mission to save the Ki...

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Main Author: Mass, Wendy, 1967- (Author)
Other Authors: Vidal, Oriol, 1977- (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Branches/Scholastic Inc., 2018.
Edition: First edition.
Series: Time jumpers ; bk. 1.
Branches (Scholastic Inc.)
Subjects:
Arthur, > King > Juvenile fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Summary: At the flea market nine-and-a-half-year-old Chase and his younger sister Ava acquire an old suitcase filled with rows of carefully packed strange objects, and when they handle one of the objects (a dragon-headed doorknob) they find themselves in King Arthur's castle, on a mission to save the King--and pursued by a strange man whom they first saw at the flea market, who is after their suitcase.--Provided by Publisher.
Physical Description: 90 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Audience: 570L
Decoding demand: 72 (high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 81 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high)
ISBN: 9781338217360
Author Notes: Wendy Mass was born in Livingston, New Jersey on January 17, 1967. She received a B. A. in English from Tufts University. She worked as a book editor at numerous publishing houses in New York City and Connecticut and co-created a teenage literary magazine called Writes of Passage. She has written several nonfiction books for teenagers including Stonehenge, Readings on Night, John Cabot: Early Explorer, and Ray Bradbury: Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her fiction books include Leap Day, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, Every Soul a Star, 11 Birthdays, Finally, and The Candymakers. A Mango-Shaped Space won the American Library Association Schneider Family Book Award in 2004. She wrote the storyline for an episode of the television show Monk, entitled "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theatre," which aired during the show's second season.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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