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Hotel Balzaar

by DiCamillo, Kate
Additional authors: Sarda, Julia -- illustrator.
Series: The Norendy tales Edition statement:First edition. Published by : Candlewick Press (Somerville, Massachusetts) Physical details: 150 pages illustrations ; 21 cm. ISBN:9781536223316; 153622331X.
Subject(s): Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction. | Parrots -- Juvenile fiction. | Circus -- Juvenile fiction. | Hotels -- Juvenile fiction. | Soldiers -- Missing in action -- Juvenile fiction. | Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction. | Friendship -- Juvenile fiction. | Puppets -- Juvenile fiction. | Toys -- Juvenile fiction. | Children of military personnel -- Fiction. | Marionnettes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. | novellas. | Adventure fiction. | Fantasy fiction. | Fairy tales. | Action and adventure fiction. | Illustrated works. | Novellas.
Year: 2024
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At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta's mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will but quietly, invisibly like a little mouse. While her mother cleans rooms, Marta slips down the back staircase to the grand lobby to chat with the bellman, study the painting of an angel's wing over the fireplace, and watch a cat chase a mouse around the face of the grandfather clock, all the while dreaming of the return of her soldier father, who has gone missing. One day, a mysterious countess with a parrot checks in, promising a story--in fact, seven stories in all, each to be told in its proper order. As the stories unfold, Marta begins to wonder: could the secret to her father's disappearance lie in the countess's tales? --

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