The tears of the salamander / Peter Dickinson.
by Dickinson, Peter.
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BookPublisher: New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2003Description: 197 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0385901259.Subject(s): Magic -- Fiction | Fire -- Fiction | Salamanders -- Fiction | Singing -- Fiction | Uncles -- Fiction | Orphans -- Fiction | Mount Etna (Italy) -- Fiction | Italy -- History -- Fiction | Historical fictionDDC classification: [Fic] Summary: When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.
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When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew.
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