TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hardinge,Frances
TI  - Fly by NIGHT
SN  - 9781509842339
U1  - 823 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan Children's Books
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Orphans stories
KW  - Swindlers and swindling
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Geese
N1  - For middle to upper primary school age
N2  - In a fractured Realm, struggling to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and religious tyrrany, a 12-year-old orphan and a homicidal goose become the accidental heroes of a revolution. Mosca has spent her life in a miserable hamlet, where her father was banished for writing inflammatory books about tolerance and freedom. Now he is dead and Mosca is on the run after unintentionally setting fire to a mill. With a swindler named Eponymous Clent, she heads for the city of Mandelion. A born liar, Mosca lives by her wits in a world of highwaymen and smugglers, dangerously insane rulers in ludicrous wigs, secret agents and radical plotters. She is recruited as a spy by the fanatical Mabwick Toke, leader of the Guild of Stationers, who fears losing his control over the publication of every book in the state. Mosca's activities reveal a plot to force a rule of terror on the Realm, and merry mayhem soon leads to murder
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