- Friendship in fiction, Friendship, Orphans, Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill longs to escape from the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. When a rare chance to get away comes, he grabs it, but the attempt goes fatally wrong.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and resolved.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Eoin Colfer
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 267
- Publisher
- Puffin Books, Galaxy, Penguin Group UK
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780141910086
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Eoin Colfer (pronounced "Owen") is an Irish author of children's books. He worked as a primary school teacher before he became a full-time writer. He is best known for being the author of the Artemis Fowl series. ([source][1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoin_Colfer
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