No. of pages 304
Published: 2016
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This book features in the following series: Rollercoasters, Rollercoasters Series .
. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.
There are 304 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Oxford University Press .
Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book, The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers, was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges. She is currently working on her doctorate alongisde an adult novel.
Carnegie Award
Waterstones Children's Book Prize: 5-12 years
Concorde Book Award
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This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Waterstones Children's Book Award
This book was recognised in the Fiction - Ages 5-12 Years category by the Waterstones Children's Book Award.
Blue Peter Book Award
This book was recognised in the Best Story category by the Blue Peter Book Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.