TY  - BOOK
AU  - DiCamillo, Kate/ Sard,̉ Jl͠ia (ILT),
AU  - Sardà,Júlia
TI  - The Hotel Balzaar: The Norendy Tales #2
SN  - 9781536223316 : HRD
AV  - PZ 
U1  - FIC 
PY  - 0000///October 012024///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - Candlewick Pr
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Fantasy
KW  - Hotels, motels, etc
KW  - Toys
KW  - Children of working mothers
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Working mothers
KW  - Fairy tales
KW  - Puppets
KW  - Hotels
KW  - Novelle
KW  - Fantasy & Magic
KW  - lcsh
KW  - War & Military
KW  - local
N2  - At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta’s mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will but quietly, invisibly—like a little mouse. While her mother cleans rooms, Marta slips down the back staircase to the grand lobby to chat with the bellman, study the painting of an angel’s wing over the fireplace, and watch a cat chase a mouse around the face of the grandfather clock, all the while dreaming of the return of her soldier father, who has gone missing. One day, a mysterious countess with a parrot checks in, promising a story—in fact, seven stories in all, each to be told in its proper order. As the stories unfold, Marta begins to wonder: could the secret to her father’s disappearance lie in the countess’s tales? Book two in a trio of novellas bound by place and mood—with elegant line art by Júlia Sardà—The Hotel Balzaar masterfully juggles yearning and belief, shining light into every dark corner
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