When authorities threaten to take 12-year-old Sophie away from Charles, who has been her guardian since she was one & both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to find Sophie's mother, & they are aided by Matteo & his band of "rooftoppers."°°°Katherine Rundellis the internationally bestselling author ofImpossible Creatures. Her other books for children includeRooftoppers,Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms,The Wolf Wilder,The Explorer, andThe Good Thieves. She grew up in Zimbabwe, Brussels, & London, & is currently a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. For adult readers, Rundell has writtenVanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered CreaturesandSuper-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, which won theBaillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. She was the recipient of theBritish Book Award for Book of the Year & Author of the Year.