The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge / M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin.
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TextPublication details: Somerville, Massaachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 516 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780763698225Subject(s): Elves -- Juvenile fiction | Goblins -- Juvenile fiction | Peace-building -- Juvenile fiction | Elves -- Fiction | Goblins -- Fiction | Diplomacy -- Fiction | Spy stories | War -- FictionGenre/Form: Spy fiction. | War fiction. | Fantasy fiction. | Humorous fiction. DDC classification: [Fic] Summary: "Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom - from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them -- and war for their nation"--Amazon.
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"Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom - from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them -- and war for their nation"--Amazon.
760 Lexile.
5.0.
5-8 Follett School Solutions.
Reading Counts RC 4.6 11.0
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