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Original Title:	Rooftoppers
ISBN:	0571280595 (ISBN13: 9780571280599)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Paris(France)
Literary Awards:	Carnegie Medal Nominee (2014), Premio El Templo de las Mil Puertas Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera independiente (2017)

Rooftoppers Paperback | Pages: 278 pages

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Title	:	Rooftoppers
Author	:	Katherine Rundell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 278 pages
Published	:	March 7th 2013 by Faber Faber
Categories	:	Childrens. Middle Grade. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Adventure. Young Adult

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Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive, but that means still possible. You should never ignore a possible. So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, she takes matters into her own hands and flees to Paris to look for her mother, starting with the only clue she has - the address of the cello maker. Evading the French authorities, she meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers - urchins who live in the sky. Together they scour the city for Sophie's mother before she is caught and sent back to London, and most importantly before she loses hope.

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Ratings: 4.05 From 8277 Users | 1425 Reviews

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Mother Daughter Book Club Review:Mother: Great story with spoonfuls of creamy dream-like prose. Loved most young Sophie and her adventures with the rag-tag friends who dwell on rooftops and trees, especially Matteo and the almost more-than-friendship introduced by Rundell...reminiscent of Secret Garden with maybe a dash of Heathcliff in hardscrabble Matteo, the lone wolf kid all haunted, passionate, and grim. (Jump, Sophie, jump. You might die, but maybe you won't. And here, here are my scars

Charming young adult book about an orphan girl, Sophie, who looks for her mother of whom she is convinced she is alive... in Paris, travelling over rooftops together with Charles her guardian and sort of 'stepfather' and a band of rooftop children... 3.4 maybe more. Will return for more! A beautiful story about pursuing your dreams and never ignoring a 'possible'. Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When no one believes

just a wonderful, magical, extraordinary book. the kind of classic-feeling book you can put in the hands of a little girl and feel confident that with it, she will grow into a wonderful, magical, extraordinary creature herself. it might work on boys, too, who knows? but right now i am speaking to the fathers i know with young daughters who are looking for that book that will leave an impression on them in a literary role-model kind of way: a strong and smart and brave little girl raised by an

Rooftoppers was a fun read. If my ten year old self had read this, surely I would have rated the book 4 stars. My adult self wasn't as invested (since I wasn't the target audience; my opinion doesn't count against children!), even though I appreciated the charm of the story. Matteo reminded me slightly of a childlike Han Alister, or perhaps a far more innocent version of a scamp from Oliver Twist. Caught between the upper end of childrens' and lower end of middle grade, I'm shelving the book as



magical things can happen on rooftops or at least should.when i was still at an age and height where i couldn't reach the cupboard's highest and thus of course most mysterious shelf --even when stretching and standing on tiptoes (there may have been frustrated grunting involved), my family and i would fly over to my grandparents in india during our summer holidays.we kids were bored out of our minds.without further ado we'd decide that it was an amazingly ingenious idea to jump from rooftop

4 1/2 stars. This is pretty close to five stars and I might change my mind yet. Just a beautiful, lyrical and magical book, even though there is no literal magic or fantasy elements. karen pretty much nailed it when she said this was "classic-feeling". This whimsical historical tale has something timeless and wonderful about it - like all the best children's classics. The characters are so well-drawn and memorable, and the writing sparkles with a certain bittersweetness.It's about a spunky,