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Navigation skills have many uses, but can they help Hester find her place in the universe?

Fans of The Fortune Maker will be sure to love Catherine Norton's enchanting new middle-grade historical fiction book.

It's 1866 and Hester Hitchins' father is missing

at sea.

Determined to find him, eleven-year-old Hester

wins a place at Addington's Nautical Navigation Academy, where she will learn

to navigate by the stars. But the academy is just for boys, and what's more,

no one seems to be in charge.

Bumbling schoolmaster Captain Slingsby doesn't

know anything about navigation. Lord Addington is obsessed with building the

world's biggest telescope and Lady Addington believes that falling stars are

the souls of the dead.

With the help of a lodestone, her new friends Pru

and Nelson, and a dazzling meteor storm, can Hester set things right - and

find her own place in the universe?
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Imprint:   HARPER360
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 217mm,  Width: 160mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   401g
ISBN:   9781460763179
ISBN 10:   1460763173
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 10 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Catherine Norton's first novel, Crossing, was joint winner of the Patricia Wrightson Prize in the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. It was also a CBCA Notable Book. She was born in the UK but grew up mostly in Adelaide, where she lives with her husband, children and a very lazy whippet called Archer. She has had dozens of jobs, including travel agent, cleaner, packer of tulip bulbs and novelty stationery, publishing assistant and academic, but she has only ever been fired from two of them. Writing novels is by far her favourite. You can find her online at www.catherinenorton.com.au.

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