The Order of the Owls (Minerva Mint)

by Elisa Puricelli Guerra

Other authorsChris Turner (Translator), Gabo León Bernstein (Illustrator)
Paperback, 2014

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Description

As a baby Minerva Mint was found in a travel bag in the waiting room of a London train station, together with the deed to a rundown mansion called Lizard Manor, and for nine years she has been living there with Geraldine Flopps, the former station custodian who found her--now, together with two new friends, she is determined to find her true identity.

Publication

Capstone Press (2014), 160 pages

User reviews

LibraryThing member tldegray
Minerva Mint, mysterious orphan who lives in Lizard Manor, reminds me so much of Pippi Longstocking. She has that carefree adventurousness about her, and she surrounds herself with friends of the human and animal variety. In this first book of the series we meet Minerva and celebrate her birthday,
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while she and her new friends plot ways to scare off the couple masquerading as her parents in order to get their hands on Lizard Manor.

This book was just adorable. Minerva lives in the kind of world I wanted to live in as a child, where adventures are encouraged and badgers live in the house.

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Language

Original language

Italian

Physical description

7.5 x 0.7 inches

ISBN

1434265137 / 9781434265135
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