The Bookshop Girl
The Bookshop Girl

The Bookshop Girl

Written by Sylvia Bishop & illustrated by Poly Bernatene
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8 - 12
Reading age
144
Page count
730L
Lexile measure
Aug 4, 2020
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Despite growing up in the bookstore she was abandoned in, eleven-year-old Property Jones cannot read…and she’s been keeping that hidden for years.Little does Property know the skills she’s developed in place of reading could save her adoptive family from a dastardly plot that’s set to cheat them out of everything. You see, the Joneses have just won a contest for ownership of another bookstore, the Great Montgomery Book Emporium–and it’s every booklover’s dream! The pull of a lever calls forth rooms full of marvelous wonders―from the Room of Space Adventures with its rocket ship to the Room of Ocean Tales with its aquarium ceiling. But there is more to the Emporium than its thousands of books in extravagant displays. In fact, the previous owner, Mr. Montgomery, has not paid a very greedy man for a very expensive book. A book which the Joneses discover Mr. Montgomery damaged. While her family worries about losing the Emporium altogether, Property begins to notice strange things about this book. Things which can only be smelled or touched… Sylvia Bishop’s fantastical middle grade mystery debut is an entertaining tale filled with whimsy, mechanical wonder, and memorably quirky characters.

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      Poly Bernatene

      Poly Bernatene was born in 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has been drawing ever since. He graduated from Buenos Aires’s art school, where he developed a great interest in managing different techniques in his work, which has always been based on experimentation and diversity. Poly’s work is constantly changing and developing as he looked for new ways to tell stories. He has worked in advertisement, animation, and comics. During the last fifteen years, he established an exciting career as a professional illustrator, having published more than sixty children’s books in eleven countries.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9781682631997
    Publication Date
    August 4, 2020
    Publisher
    Peachtree
    Original Publication Date
    January 1, 2018
    Page Count
    144
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Lexile® Level
    730L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~Q
    ATOS® Book Level
    5.09
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    3
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    503499
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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