A Little Lower Than the Angels
by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Gabriel has no idea what the future will hold when he runs away from his apprenticeship with the bad-tempered stonemason. But God Himself, in the shape of playmaster Garvey, has plans for him. He wants Gabriel for his angel...But will Gabriel's new life with the travelling players be any more secure? In a world of illusion, people are not always what they seem. Least of all Gabriel.* Geraldine McCaughrean is considered an exceptional writer of our time. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the show more Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Whitbread Award (twice) and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. show lessTags
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A novel for children about the Mystery players and the plague--what a combination! More appropriate for middle school readers because of the topic, this is the story of a runaway mason apprentice who joins a troupe of traveling Mystery players and the journey they have together.
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Geraldine McCaughrean was born in Enfield, England on June 6, 1951. She was educated at Christ Church College, Canterbury. She has written more than 160 books and plays for children and adults. Her writing career includes the retelling of such classics as One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, The Canterbury Tales, and The Bronze Cauldron: Myths and show more Legends of the World, which is a collection of stories from all over the world. She has received numerous awards including three Whitbread Children's Book Awards for A Little Lower Than the Angels, Gold Dust, and Not the End of the World. She also received the Guardian Prize and Carnegie Medal for A Pack of Lies, the Beefeater Children's Novel Award for Gold Dawn, the Michael L. Printz Award for The White Darkness, and the 2018 Carnegie Medal for children's and YA books for her middle-grade novel Where the World Ends. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1987
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Tween
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English, German
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