# The Undrowned Child

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- Book: [The Undrowned Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/michelle-lovric/the-undrowned-child) ([The Undrowned Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michelle-lovric/the-undrowned-child.md))
- Authors: [Michelle Lovric](https://www.bookquiver.com/michelle-lovric)
- Publisher: orion_children_s_books
- ISBN: 978-14-4400-004-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

It's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go 'between the linings' to subvert evil and restore order.