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Viking Books for Young Readers
March 2016
On Sale: March 8, 2016
Featuring: Elodie Buchanan
416 pages
ISBN: 0451474112
EAN: 9780451474117
Kindle: B01A6EQFY4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult Historical
The adventures of a British girl in China, hunting for
the orchid that will save her family. Staid, responsible Elodie Buchanan is the eldest of ten
sisters growing up in a small English market town in 1861.
The girls barely know their father, a plant hunter usually
off adventuring through China, more myth than man. Then
disaster strikes: Mr. Buchanan reneges on his contract to
collect an extremely rare and valuable orchid. He will be
thrown into debtors’ prison while his daughters are sent to
the orphanage and the workhouse. Elodie can’t stand by and see her family destroyed, so she
persuades her father to return to China once more to try to
hunt down the flower—only this time, despite everything she
knows about her place in society, Elodie goes with him. She
has never before left her village, but what starts as fear
turns to wonder as she adapts to seafaring life aboard the
tea clipper The Osprey, and later to the new
sights, dangers, and romance of China. She comes to find
that both the world and her place in it are so much bigger
than she’d ever dreamed. But now, even if she can
find the orchid, how can she ever go back to being the
staid, responsible Elodie that everybody needs?
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