Casting the Gods Adrift
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Casting the Gods Adrift
By (Author) Geraldine McCaughrean
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A & C Black Publishers Ltd
1st October 2005
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Fiction
Educational: History
823.914
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 7mm
104g
Description
A thriller set in ancient Egypt between 1351-1354 BC. Tutmose and Ibrim's father, the animal dealer, is commanded by the new pharaoh Akhenaten, to bring him animals - lots of animals - for his new capital city. The boys' father is delighted. But he has no idea what the pharaoh's strange new religion will mean for all of them...
Author Bio
Geraldine McCaughrean began writing after taking a job at a magazine publishing house. She has won many high profile awards: A Little Lower than the Angels won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award and A Pack of Lies received the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. The Kite Rider again won her the Carnegie and Not the End of the World has won this year's Whitbread Award.
