Rooftoppers: From the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

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Rooftoppers: From the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon 

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Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived.When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matters into her own hands, starting with the only clue she has - the address of a cello-maker in Paris. On the run from the authorities, Sophie finds Matteo and his network of rooftoppers - urchins who walk tightropes and live in the sky. In a race across the rooftops of Paris, will they be able to find her mother before it's too late?Hopeful, inspiring and thrilling in equal measure, this is a classic adventure story about pursuing your dreams and never ignoring a possible.

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Katherine Rundell (born 1987) is a celebrated British author of children's books and an academic, known for imaginative adventures like Rooftoppers, The Explorer, and the Impossible Creatures series, winning major awards like the Costa Book Award and Waterstones Children's Book Prize. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, she also writes non-fiction, including the award-winning Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, and was named Author of the Year at the 2024 British Book Awards. 

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