Tears of the Salamander

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Copyright © 2003 by Peter Dickinson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dickinson, Peter.

Tears of the salamander / Peter Dickinson.

p. cm.

Summary: When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century

Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he

discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister

plans for his nephew.

eISBN: 978-0-307-54793-4

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Fire—Fiction. 3. Salamanders—Fiction.

4. Singing—Fiction. 5. Uncles—Fiction. 6. Orphans—Fiction. 7. Etna,

Mount (Italy)—Fiction. 8. Italy—History—18th century—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.D562Te 2003

[Fic]—dc21

2003000584

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