Publication

1975 - Morrow, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

51,000 words, Guess

Page Count

204 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivefledgling00cade
  • ISBN-100688028802
  • ISBN-139780688028800
  • LibraryThing952436
  • Goodreads1217619
and 4 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number74017473
  • OCLC Control Number1031392
  • Better World Books9780688028800
  • Open LibraryOL5055121M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPZ3.C11427 Fl3
  • LCCPR6005.A225 Fl3
and 2 more
  • LCCPZ3.C11427Fl3
  • LCCPR9499.3.C3 Fl3

Description

Vitorina's escort from Lisbon to London wore a cloak of respectability which convinced the child's father and aunts, but even before the ten-year-old girl had made her disconcerting discovery of his theft from the rich, private chapel of her home, she had begun to take his measure. Circumstances, plus some contrivance on her own part, enabled the youngster to shake him off. Alone, she reached Victoria and the warm if belated welcome of her father's distant cousin and ex-fiancee, Philippa. How the gold statuette of St. Christopher had been stolen and how it reached Portugal again, how Philippa changed at the eleventh hour from one bridegroom to another and how, above all, Vitorina throve on her first taste of freedom and found her father really cared about her after all is interwoven into a delightful, readable story.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The fledgling.Morrow1975-01-01

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