What-the-Dickens

What-the-Dickens

By - "Maguire, Gregory"
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Candlewick Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007
ISBN 10 - 0763641472
ISBN 13 - 9780763641474
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Storms
Shelf No - 5
Call Number - 813.54 MAG
Physical Description - 295 pages ; 21 cm
Book Information
A New York Times Bestseller! From the best-selling author of Wicked, a transporting tale-within-a-tale about the strange world of skibbereen — aka tooth fairies — and the universal need to believe. A terrible storm is raging, and ten-year-old Dinah is huddled by candlelight with her brother, sister, and cousin Gage, who is telling a very unusual tale. It’s the story of What-the-Dickens, a newly hatched orphan creature who finds he has an attraction to teeth, a crush on a cat named McCavity, and a penchant for getting into trouble. One day he happens upon a feisty girl skibberee who is working as an Agent of Change — trading coins for teeth — and learns that there is a dutiful tribe of skibbereen (call them tooth fairies) to which he hopes to belong. As his tale of discovery unfolds, however, both What-the- Dickens and Dinah come to see that the world is both richer and less sure than they ever imagined.

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