- Publisher: Chicken House
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 197x130mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781913696481
- Product code: 545767
The Map of Leaves
New Paperback
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Twelve-year-old Orla Carson has the ability to hear and talk to plants. When their whispers warn her about a mysterious sickness in her village, she ventures into the wild on a riverboat to find a cure. Age 9+
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Set in a world where plants talk, friendship is hard-won
and adventure is around the bend of every river ...
'I could almost feel the river mist settling in my hair' SARAH
DRIVER
'Wild and imaginative storytelling' FLEUR HITCHCOCK
'A very special story' JULIA GREEN
Orla has lived on her own since Ma died, with only her beloved
garden for company. When sickness comes and nature is blamed, Orla
knows she must find a cure.
Armed with her mother's book of plants and remedies, she steals
away on a river boat with two other stowaways, Idris and Ariana.
Soon the trio must navigate the rapids of the Inkwater to a poisonous
place from which they may never return ...
Fast-paced, thrilling storytelling, packed full of rustic
adventure and peril
A wild rapids-ride of a story, suffused at every turn
with authentic details of the natural world
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2023
A gorgeous gifty book for ages 9 and up: a flapped paperback
with illustration by Marie-Alice Harel
'Fast-paced and highly original' GILL LEWIS
'Wild and bewitching' NICOLA PENFOLD
'A thrilling, beautiful, important book' NATASHA
FARRANT
and adventure is around the bend of every river ...
'I could almost feel the river mist settling in my hair' SARAH
DRIVER
'Wild and imaginative storytelling' FLEUR HITCHCOCK
'A very special story' JULIA GREEN
Orla has lived on her own since Ma died, with only her beloved
garden for company. When sickness comes and nature is blamed, Orla
knows she must find a cure.
Armed with her mother's book of plants and remedies, she steals
away on a river boat with two other stowaways, Idris and Ariana.
Soon the trio must navigate the rapids of the Inkwater to a poisonous
place from which they may never return ...
Fast-paced, thrilling storytelling, packed full of rustic
adventure and peril
A wild rapids-ride of a story, suffused at every turn
with authentic details of the natural world
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2023
A gorgeous gifty book for ages 9 and up: a flapped paperback
with illustration by Marie-Alice Harel
'Fast-paced and highly original' GILL LEWIS
'Wild and bewitching' NICOLA PENFOLD
'A thrilling, beautiful, important book' NATASHA
FARRANT
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197x130mm
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9-12 years
9-12 years
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