My Friend The Octopus
- Publisher : Chicken House
- Author : Lindsay Galvin
- ISBN : 9781913696405
- Lab Code : 2480
- Number of pages : 374
- ATOS Book Level : 5.8
- Points Value : 10.0
- Book Cover : Paperback
£7.99 Original price was: £7.99.£3.99Current price is: £3.99.
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Categories: Fiction - Middle Years Accelerated Reader, Year 6, Year 7
Description
England, 1893, and aquarium fever is at its height.
Twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe works in the tea-shop at Brighton aquarium, and waits for her milliner mother to return from Paris.
The arrival of a giant octopus changes her life for ever. Discovering a talent for art, Vinnie begins to draw the extraordinary beast.
She soon realises she can communicate with the octopus through colour and – as a gripping mystery begins to unfold – discovers what true courage really means …