Splendors & Glooms, by Laura Amy Schlitz 2013年紐伯瑞兒童文學獎 Clara是十九世紀住在英國倫敦的12歲貴族女孩,在她生日那天,由Grisini帶領的偶戲班到她家演出,奇怪的是演出過後Clara神秘的失蹤了。 過了一陣子戲班裡的孤兒Lizzie和Paresfall,在Grisni的戲偶櫃裡發現多了一個棕髮白皮膚的戲偶... 正當他們漸漸發覺戲班師傅隱而不宣的秘密之際,Grisini竟然也離奇失蹤。 隨後,Lizzie和Paresfall收到了蘇格蘭女巫的召喚,要他們帶著那隻應該是Clara的戲偶前去找她,在詭譎陰森密謀多變的維多利亞哥德小說的氣氛中,主角勇敢深入探索,為讀者探詢深駐於歷史中的秘密。 ISBN: 9780763694494 Laura Amy Schlitz’s Newbery Honor–winning Victorian gothic is a rich banquet of dark comedy, scorching magic, and brilliant and bewitching storytelling. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by the master puppeteer Grisini’s act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts. When Clara vanishes that night, suspicion of kidnapping falls upon the puppeteer and, by association, his orphaned assistants Lizzie Rose and Parsefall. Fleeing London, Lizzie and Parse find themselves caught in a trap set by Grisini’s ancient rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to shed before it’s too late.