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The Marvels

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The Marvels

September 2015

Two seemingly unrelated stories --- one in words, the other in pictures --- come together with spellbinding synergy. The illustrated story begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, and charts the adventures of his family of actors over five generations. The prose story opens in 1990 and follows Joseph, who has run away from school to an estranged uncle's puzzling house in London, where he, along with the reader, must piece together many mysteries.

The Marvels
by Brian Selznick

  • Publication Date: September 15, 2015
  • Genres: Adventure, Fiction, Mystery, Youth Fiction
  • Hardcover: 640 pages
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press
  • ISBN-10: 0545448689
  • ISBN-13: 9780545448680