COGHEART (THE COGHEART ADVENTURES #1)

Author: Peter Bunzl

Edition Year: 2016

Cover: P/B

Description: The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination. Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. Lily's life is in mortal peril. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. What could they want from her? With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart... SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRANFORD BOASE AWARD SELECTED AS ONE OF THE NATION'S 100 FAVOURITE STORIES TO SHARE (World Book Day, 2018) "A steampunky tale of ambition, pursuit and revenge." The Guardian "A delightfully badly behaved heroine, enthralling mechanicals and a stormer of a plot." Abi Elphinstone "A glittering clockwork treasure." Piers Torday

Prizes: Winner of Dudley Teen Book Award 2017 and Sefton Super Reads Award 2017 and Awesome Book Awards 2018. Short-listed for Leeds Book Award 2017 and Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017 and North East Teen Book Award 2016 and Hillingdon Primary Book of the Year 2017 and Haringey Children's Book Award 2017 and Redbridge Children's Book Award 2017 and Stockport Children's Book Award 2017 and Crystal Kite Award 2017 and Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book Awards 2017 and Chorlton Book Awards 2017 and Harrow Junior Book Award 2018 and Salford Children's Book Award 2018 and Stockton Children's Book of the Year 2018. Long-listed for The Branford Boase Award 2017 and Cranleigh School's Awesome Book Awards 2018 and St Helens Schools Library Service Book Awards 2018. Nominated for The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018.

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