The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party

Anderson, M.T.

ISBN 10: 0739338625 ISBN 13: 9780739338629

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio), 2007

Synopsis

He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother–a princess in exile from a faraway land–are the only people in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians’ fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments–and his own chilling role in them.

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"Imaginative and important."

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Awards & Recognitions:
National Book Award Winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Michael L. Printz Honor Book
Boston Globe--Horn Book Awards Winner, Fiction Category
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Awards, Honorable Mention
Julia Ward Howe Young Readers Award
New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age
Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices List
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Booklist Editors' Choice
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults Top Ten
The Horn Book Fanfare
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About this edition

• Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0739338625
• ISBN 13: 9780739338629
• Binding: Audio CD