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Egg & Spoon Kindle Edition

by Gregory Maguire (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Gregory Maguire, master storyteller and bestselling author of Wicked, spins a magical and mesmerizing adventure set in Tsarist Russia.

Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, combines fairy tale and folklore in this irreverent re-imagining of the classic story of mistaken identity – The Prince and the Pauper. Described by School Library Journal as "a beautiful reminder that fairy tales are at their best when they illuminate the precarious balance between lighthearted childhood and the darkness and danger of adulthood”, this book will appeal to readers both young and old. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father is dead and her mother dying, while her brother has been conscripted into the Tsar's army. Elena's future is as bleak as the wastelands surrounding her village of Miersk. That is until the night of a freak storm when a majestic steam train is forced to stop at the village’s abandoned station. The train carries a fabulous Fabergé egg and Ekaterina, a girl whose fate is now entwined with Elena's. When their lives collide, a complex, funny and engrossing adventure begins. An adventure that features the mythical Firebird, a prince travelling incognito, the awesome city of Saint Petersburg, the glacial lands of the north, and – in a starring role – Baba Yaga, the enigmatic witch of Russian folklore, and her shapeshifting house, Dumb Doma, perched on chicken legs.

Length: 497 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Age Level: 12 and up	Grade Level: 7 - 9

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Gregory Maguire is the author of the incredibly popular books in the Wicked Years series, including Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which inspired the musical. He is also the author of many books for children, including What-the-Dickens, which was a New York Times bestseller. Gregory Maguire lives outside Boston. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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Set in early 20th-century Russia, a captivating blend of fantasy and reality. ― The Bookseller Children's Buyer's Guide --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN : B00NAUYCUQ
Publisher : Walker Books; 0 edition (16 October 2014)
Language: : English
File size : 5778 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 497 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 223,311 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 66 in Country & Ethnic Fairy Tales & Folklore for Young Adults
- 430 in Myths & Legends for Young Adults
- 2,812 in Children's Action & Adventure Literature

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Sharon wonnacott

Amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2016

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Ellen Partnoy

This was a fabulous book. As a kid I ...

Reviewed in Canada on 3 September 2016

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This was a fabulous book. As a kid I read many fairy tales featuring Baba Yaga, and always wondered what her side of the story might be. She is always portrayed as an evil being with no real personality. In this story, her personality and her wit shine through. Baba and her familiar, the kitten Meowster, are absolutely hilarious, and the tale itself is a romp through a magical world that made me wish for more.

Randall Epp

Couldn't put the book down.

Reviewed in Canada on 8 February 2017

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Best book I've read in a long time. Nobody tells a tale the way Gregory Maguire does. His imagination, his humour and his compassion make him, I my humble opinion, one of the greatest writers of our time.

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Ms. Betsy & Library

Over written, only makes 1/2 sense. To many stories going on in one book. Yuck

Reviewed in the United States on 21 January 2018

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This book started out o.k. 1/2 way through it had so many other stories going on that it wasn't fun to read. I am having to force myself to finish this heap of run on sentences, verbose discriptions, and totally insane story plot. Baba Yaba doesn't belong in this story and neither does the snow dragon. To much added and nothing really developed. I dislike this book. It lost its appeal about 1/2 way. As a kindergarten teacher for 37 years, I can tell you this would not fly with children. Or few adults. His loading of sentences with every large word he can find spoils this. It gets so heavy with words it's hard to drag the story along. Not a book I would recommend nor want to keep. waste of so many words.

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LisaCfromNY

A masterpiece of literature!

Reviewed in the United States on 13 September 2014

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Every sentence is a pleasure to read. His prose are superiorly entertaining. MaGuire has the gift of using irony, humor, sarcasm and wit in everything he writes. His characters are smart and speak volumes for all social classes and their challenges. MaGuire makes you think. His characters are strong. His characters shine with common sense and the wisdom that is found by living and making due with what fate hands them. "Egg & Spoon" is a shining light on the goodness of humanity while facing difficult circumstances. Like all of Maguire's books, "Egg & Spoon" is a thinking persons book. It's more than just fantasy. It's real life sufferings being met by the best of the human spirit. "Egg & Spoon" is a must read for all ages. If your a young adult there are many life lessons to be learned. If your an adult with all the trappings and stresses thereof, then it's a soothing tonic of escapism with brillant writing. MaGuire does not patronize nor talk down to his audience, he elevates them by engaging the reader to think and "read between the lines" with a wink and nudge to both the young and old. "Egg & Spoon" is quite simply, a brilliant piece of literature on a higher plain than the recent norm in the young adult genre. Teen werewolves and dystopian societies are entertaining. We all enjoy junk food from time to time, however it's nice to finally be fed from the hands of a gourmet chef. "Egg & Spoon" is pure gourmet literature that should be studied in classrooms everywhere from here after.

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