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Overview
Filip, the ten-year-old son of Croatian immigrants, lives in a boring suburb of the big city, where he passes his time either at school or in his cozy kitchen, googling everything from dinosaurs to the Hubble Space Telescope. When his favorite uncle gets sick, Filip turns to Google for answers. Instead he receives a visit from the Great Googlini, a tiny woman in Converse sneakers who swirls out of the computer vents. She's not really a genie, she explains: "I'm more of an archivist." Her visit is a little bit of magic that lets Filip see the magic all around him. Ultimately about the things we can know and the things we can't, this is a smart, touching, funny chapter book about growing up, braving tough times and looking for answers.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781459817036 |
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Publisher: | Orca Book Publishers |
Publication date: | 10/02/2018 |
Series: | Orca Echoes Series |
Pages: | 112 |
Product dimensions: | 5.25(w) x 7.62(h) x 0.31(d) |
Age Range: | 6 - 8 Years |
About the Author
Sara Cassidy has worked as a youth-hostel manager, a newspaper reporter, and a tree planter, in five Canadian provinces. Her books have been short-listed for the Chocolate Lily Award, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award, the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature, and the Bolen Books Children’s Book Prize, and two were Junior Library Guild selections. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for adults have been widely published.
Charlene Chua grew up in Singapore, where she divided her time between drawing, reading comics, and failing her Mandarin classes. She has worked with clients from Canada, USA, Europe, Singapore, and Australia on a wide variety of illustration projects. Charlene lives in Hamilton, Ontario with her husband and their two cats.
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