This dark endeavor

Title
This dark endeavor

Personal Author EPSB
Kenneth, Oppel

Summary
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.

Year Published
2011

Series
The apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein ;

Volume
bk. 1

Physical Description
298 p. ; 22 cm.

Age Interest level
Ages 12 up.

Grade Interest level
7-10

Program Information
Accelerated Reader UG 4.9 11.0 145776

Awards
YRCA Young Readers Choice Award Intermediate Division 2014 nominee

Subject
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictional character) -- Fiction.
 
Twins -- Fiction.
 
Brothers -- Fiction.
 
Alchemy -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Geneva (Republic) -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction.

Genre
Canadian fiction.
 
Historical fiction.

Summary
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.

ISBN
9781442403154
 
9781442403161
 
9781554683390
 
9781554683406

Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2011.
 
Toronto : HarperCollins, 2011.
 
©2011


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