Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy (Hardcover) by Karen Foxlee

from katsmiao

This is a great book for children.it really is a modern-day fairy tale, reminiscent of Roald Dahl, with a touch of Grimm Brothers, engaging like the Narnia books.The setting (a museum) is unique, there are ghosts and other mysterious creatures, there's a child tasked with saving the world (Opheli...

from katsmiao

This is a great book for children. it really is a modern-day fairy tale, reminiscent of Roald Dahl, with a touch of Grimm Brothers, engaging like the Narnia books. The setting (a museum) is unique, there are ghosts and other mysterious creatures, there's a child tasked with saving the world (Op...

from foggidawn

Ophelia would say she's not very brave. Mostly, she feels broken inside because her mother died three months ago. Ophelia's mother was the one who dreamed and wrote of adventure and heroines and danger. Now, Ophelia's father, an international sword expert, has taken Ophelia and her older sister A...

from Pat2011

Ophelia is a very inquisitive young girl who's mother has recently died. Her father has accepted a position in an unnamed museum in an unnamed city. Ophelia decides to explore this strange museum and finds the Marvelous Boy with no name imprisoned in a locked room and becomes and unwilling partne...

from MickyFine

When her father brings Ophelia and her sister to the city where it is always winter so that he can prepare an exhibition on swords at the museum, Ophelia only hopes to go ice-skating with her sister and perhaps observe some things that will appeal to her scientific mind. But then she meets a boy ...