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Candlewick's Five Questions (Plus One) with Gregory Maguire

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Channel: Candlewick Press · 2014 · Entertainment

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Author Gregory Maguire sits down with Candlewick to answer our five questions (plus one) about about his new YA novel Egg & Spoon.

About the book:
http://www.candlewick.com/cat.asp?browse=title&mode=book&isbn=0763672203

In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages.

Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg — a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena’s age. When the two girls’ lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and — in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured — Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.

Ages 12 and up

Candlewick's Five Questions (Plus One) with Gregory Maguire

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