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Item Details
Title:
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THE BIRTHDAY BALL
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By: |
Lois Lowry |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£5.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0547577109 |
ISBN 13: |
9780547577104 |
Publisher: |
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT PUBLISHING COMPANY |
Pub. date: |
13 September, 2011 |
Pages: |
192 |
Description: |
Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her sixteenth birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she adopts a peasant disguise and escapes her fate - for a week. |
Synopsis: |
A wry, dry, laugh-out-loud princess tale by the hilarious Lois Lowry, with illustrations by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer.Princess Patricia Priscilla is bored with her royal life and the excitement surrounding her sixteenth birthday ball. Doomed to endure courtship by three grotesquely unappealing noblemen, she adopts a peasant disguise and escapes her fate--for a week.In this tale of mistaken identity, creamed pigeons, and young love, the two-time Newbery medalist Lois Lowry compares princesses to peasants and finds them to be exactly the same in all the important ways. |
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illustrations throughout |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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