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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I

The Pox Party

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I( )
Author: Anderson, M. T.
Series title:The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Ser.
ISBN:978-0-7636-5376-7
Publication Date:Apr 2011
Publisher:Candlewick Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.99
Book Description:

National Book Award Winner!  This deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother -- a princess in exile from a faraway land -- are the only persons in their household assigned...
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Author Biography
Anderson, Matthew (Author)
M. T. Anderson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 4, 1968. He was educated in English literature at Harvard University and Cambridge University, and received his MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. He primarily writes picture books for children and novels for young adults. His picture books include Handel, Who Knew What He Liked; Strange Mr. Satie; The Serpent Came to Gloucester; and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. His young adult books include Thirsty, Burger Wuss, and Feed, which won the L.A. Times Book Award for YA fiction in 2003. He also writes the series A Pals in Peril Tale, and The Norumbegan Quartet.

Anderson Won the 2006 National Book Award in Young People's Literature for The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party.

His title Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, was a finalist for the 2016 YALSA-ALA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction.

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