Larger	The Undrowned Child Author: Michelle Lovric
	Book Information Publisher: Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 5 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9781842557020 - ISBN-10: 1842557025 Publication Date: 7/2/2009 Pages: 432

It's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of eleven-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go 'between-the-linings' to subvert evil and restore order.