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The midnight dress  Cover Image Large Print Book Large Print Book

The midnight dress / Karen Foxlee.

Summary:

Rose, nearly sixteen, is used to traveling around with her alcoholic father but connects with the people of a small, coastal Australian town, especially classmate Pearl and reclusive Edie, who teaches her to sew a magical dress for the Harvest Festival while a mystery unfolds around them.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780375856457
  • ISBN: 0375856455
  • ISBN: 9780375956454 (library binding)
  • ISBN: 037595645X (library binding)
  • Physical Description: 277 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, ©2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Junior Library Guild Selection"--Jkt. flap.
Subject: Eccentrics and eccentricities > Juvenile fiction.
Sewing > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Schools > Juvenile fiction.
Alcoholism > Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families > Juvenile fiction.
Australia > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Large type books.
Detective and mystery stories.
Mystery fiction.

Summary: Rose, nearly sixteen, is used to traveling around with her alcoholic father but connects with the people of a small, coastal Australian town, especially classmate Pearl and reclusive Edie, who teaches her to sew a magical dress for the Harvest Festival while a mystery unfolds around them.

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