- Title:
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The Key to Rondo
- Series:
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Rondo #1
- Written by:
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Emily Rodda
- Read by:
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Edwina Wren
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 21 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2008
- Available Date:
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May 14 2010
- Age Category:
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Children (8+)
- ISBN:
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9781742013916
- Genres:
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Fiction; Adventure; Children's Fiction; Fantasy
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Bestseller
Four Starred Review on Amazon
Shortlisted Aurealis Award / Best Children's Novel 2007
Shortlisted Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year / Younger Readers 2008
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2008
From the internationally bestselling author of Deltora Quest.
The old music box, with its strict rules, has been carefully handed down through Leo's family for hundreds of years. Painted scenes of villages, mysterious forests, a castle on a hill and a queen in a long blue gown decorate its sides. An astounding secret is hidden beneath its gleaming black lid. Now it is Leo's music box, and although he respects the rules, his least favourite cousin, Mimi Langlander, does not. When the rules are broken, Leo's ordered life is changed forever as he and Mimi plunge together into a thrilling quest in the fantastic world of Rondo.
"The Key To Rondo is a very neatly written distillation of fairytale elements that combine, collapse and reappear like a dream had after an evening spent with the Brothers Grimm, Madame Leprince de Beaumont and Walt Disney. Talking pigs, malevolent ducks and menacing swans bustle through its pages, family mysteries are solved, allies are found and lost, and extravagant evil and deception is punished. Great fun."
The Sydney Morning Herald