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Available
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Publication
Marion Lloyd Books (2010), Edition: 1, Paperback, 240 pages
Description
Sometimes you must do wrong to do what's right. Coffin-stealing, boat-burning, telling lies-Carla's crazy plan includes them all. To make Grandpa's secret dream come true, she's going to break the law and every rule she's ever known. But he'll get his wish-a real Viking funeral.
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When Carla's beloved Grandpa dies, she is inconsolable. Then she finds a secret letter, and decides to give him the end he always wanted. A Viking funeral, in a burning boat heading out to sea. Carla and her siblings set out on a crazy and dangerous race against time to achieve the impossible.
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Awards
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (Longlist — 2010)
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing (Nominee — 2011)
UKLA Book Award (Shortlist — 2011)
Physical description
240 p.
ISBN
1407111086 / 9781407111087
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