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Sales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comtwitter.com/starbooksalesADVANCE INFORMATIONSofkaandthe CrusaderMaxSimovKEY SELLING POINTSA fantasy story filled with Ukraine%u2019s rich folklore and tradition. Follow nine-year-old Sofka on an exciting and mysterious adventure.SetintheNorthernCaucasus(SouthernRussia)inhabitedbypeopleofdifferentethnicitiesandfaithsallof which impacts on the main characters%u2019 perceptions and behaviour.The Northern Caucasus, land of mountains and legends, is home to a nine-year-old girl Sofka, her Ukrainian fatherandherbrother.Sofkaseeksexcitingadventuresintheworld outsideherfrontdoorbut is terrifiedof the crusaderspiderswhoinhabitthefamily%u2019southouse.Inherdreams,shehearsthesadstoryofthespiders%u2019fate somecenturiesago andasa resultdevelopsafriendshipwithone of thespiders.WhenthechildrentraveltoUkrainetovisittheiraunt,Sofkaistaskedbythespidertohelpthesadmaiden,who appears by an overgrown pond atmidnight, to find her evil stepmother. The stepmother cursed the maiden%u2019s familyandruinedtheirlives.ButSofkais terrified.Thetaskseemsimpossibleforherto carryout.Shetellsthe spider she won%u2019t do it. Will the spider persuade her?Max Simov (realnameSvetlanaCarsten)isalinguistwholives inYorkbutgrewupintheNorthernCaucasus, SouthernRussia. TheamazingeventsofMax%u2019s ownchildhood providedtheinspirationforthis andtheprevious children%u2019s book, The Fruit Thieves,whichwas published in 2020.Comparative title: 9781838595364 Fruit Thieves (Sept 20)Publication Date: 28th November 2024 %u00a39.99 ISBN:9781836280415 Thema subject category: YFC%u2013 Children%u2019s / Teenage fiction:Action and adventure storiespaperback 198 x 129 mm 176 pp Portrait Authorlocation:York