Egg and Spoon

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Candlewick Press, Sep 9, 2014 - Young Adult Fiction - 496 pages
In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages.

Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar’s army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg — a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena’s age. When the two girls’ lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and — in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured — Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.
 

Contents

Later
2
UNTIMELY THUNDER
7
The World in a Graveyard
13
Farther Afield
21
Double Lightning
30
The Accidental Guests
37
Mamenkas Gift
43
Next
47
Miss Yaga
179
A Grey Rainbow
185
A Wasp in the
303
33
307
Brother
310
An Audience with the Tsar
319
The Second Night of the Festival
326
The House of Solitary Confinement
332

The Apple
49
Pay Attention
61
The
72
IRON HORSE CHICKEN HOUSE
85
Surprise
95
The Hand at the Window
102
The Morning Is Wiser Than the Night
108
Two Cats
121
Discovery
127
The Hut in the Woods
137
Onward to Saint Petersburg
145
And Onward to Saint Petersburg
151
The Reluctant Student
158
The Progress of Dumb Doma
164
9
171
Two Moons in the Long Wet Night
172
Together
342
The Snow Tornado
354
Perplexity
364
The Sneezing Cave
373
The Starry Crown
387
Still Later
395
The Teeth of the Beast
401
The DragonTooth
408
The PartTime Hero
415
A House Has Its Secrets
423
Armies Meet by Moonlight
430
The Norway Geese
439
The Kittens Advice
446
All Aboard Who Are Going Aboard
458
The Doctors Advice
467
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Gregory Maguire is the author of the incredibly popular books in the Wicked Years series, including Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which inspired the musical. He is also the author of several books for children, including What-the-Dickens, a New York Times bestseller. Gregory Maguire lives outside Boston.

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