Glass FeverTroubador Publishing Ltd, 2004 M04 15 - 118 pages Glassmaking in Victorian times has weird results for Emma, a young orphan girl who believes her parents are still alive. Whenever she comes near glass objects, like a lemonade bottle or a crystal ball, strange things happen. What has she got? A glass fever? Or does glass contain a secret about her par |
Contents
Orange Treacle | 1 |
Glass Swan | 9 |
Lemonade Bottle | 19 |
Crystal Ball | 29 |
Flamingo Woman | 38 |
Welsh Chapel | 47 |
Glass Goblet | 55 |
Walking a Tightrope | 61 |
The Bacchus Vase | 69 |
Sixpenny Spectacles | 78 |
Glass Fish | 87 |
In the Limelight | 95 |
Our Emma | 105 |
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