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y separately published work icon Della Mortika : The Library of Wonder single work   children's fiction   science fiction  
Is part of Della Mortika Steampunk Adventures Geraldine F Martin , 2014 series - author children's fiction (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Della Mortika : The Library of Wonder
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'Abigail and Beatrix have been adopted by the Malefics, a famous inventor family, after a short stay in the Skipping Girl Home for Wayward and Homeless Girls in Melbourne. Zarah sets out to be reunited with them, but when she gets to the Malefic Mansion she is disturbed to find that her sisters are nowhere to be seen.

'Where are Zarah’s sisters?

'Why have other children been disappearing?

'And what do these happenings have to do with the Malefics’ latest invention, The Library of Wonder?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Steampunk Note: Contains common Victorian elements, such as orphanages and orphans, as well as the steampunk standards of inventions and inventors.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Vivid Publishing , 2015 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published December 2015.
      ISBN: 9781925442007
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
  • ca. 1889
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