The tears of the salamander
By: Peter Dickinson.
Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Magic -- Juvenile fiction; Fire -- Juvenile fiction; Salamanders -- Juvenile fiction; Singing -- Juvenile fiction; Uncles -- Juvenile fiction; Orphans -- Juvenile fiction; Etna, Mount (Italy) -- Juvenile fiction; Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
Description: 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.