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 -- Fiction.; Fire -- Fiction.; Salamanders -- Fiction.; Singing -- Fiction.; Uncles -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Etna, Mount (Italy) -- Fiction.; Italy -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.
Genres: 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.