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Also by Frances Hardinge:

A Face Like Glass, May 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Lie Tree, May 2016
Hardcover
Cuckoo Song, May 2015
Hardcover (reprint)
Fearsome Magics, October 2014
Paperback
Fly by Night, May 2006
Hardcover

FLY BY NIGHT
By: Frances Hardinge

Fly by Night is astonishingly original, a grand feat of the imagination from a masterful new storyteller.

HarperCollins
May 2006
Featuring: Mosca Mye; Eponymous Clent
496 pages
ISBN: 0060876271
Hardcover
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Childrens | Young Adult

Twelve-year-old Mosca Mye hasn't got much. Her cruel uncle keeps her locked up in his mill, and her only friend is her pet goose, Saracen, who'll bite anything that crosses his path. But she does have one small, rare thing: the ability to read. She doesn't know it yet, but in a world where books are dangerous things, this gift will change her life.

Enter Eponymous Clent, a smooth-talking con man who seems to love words nearly as much as Mosca herself. Soon Mosca and Clent are living a life of deceit and danger -- discovering secret societies, following shady characters onto floating coffeehouses, and entangling themselves with crazed dukes and double-crossing racketeers. It would be exactly the kind of tale Mosca has always longed to take part in, until she learns that her one true love -- words -- may be the death of her.

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Weekend Edition Sunday - June 11, 2006