ROOFTOPPERS

Book ID/图书代码： 11701212B59430

English Summary/英文概要： My mother is still alive, and she is going to come for me one day.

Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive, but that means still possible. You should never ignore a possible.

So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, she takes matters into her own hands and flees to Paris to look for her mother, starting with the only clue she has - the address of the cello maker.

Evading the French authorities, she meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers - urchins who live in the sky. Together they scour the city for Sophie’s mother before she is caught and sent back to London, and most importantly before she loses hope.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 只要母亲还活着，我深信，终有一天，她会找到我。

所有人都认为苏菲是一名孤儿，而事实也确实如此。多年前的一场海难中，苏菲是唯一的一名女幸存者，还是婴儿的她被安放在一个大提琴盒中，漂浮在英吉利的海峡上次得以幸存。但苏菲却清晰地记得母亲挥手求救的画面。她的监护人告诉她，她的母亲仍旧活着的几率是很低的，然而只要还有一线希望，她都无法说服自己不去相信。

但福利机构来信威胁苏菲的监护人，要将苏菲送到孤儿院时，苏菲决定自己掌控自己的命运。她带着所拥有的唯一线索：大提琴制作者的地址，逃往了巴黎，试图找寻母亲。

来到法国的苏菲认识了马蒂奥和他的网站“屋顶人”---一个有关于生活在天空中的流浪儿童的网站。在苏菲被抓住遣送回国并失去希望前，他们曾一起翻遍整个伦敦，并一起寻找苏菲的母亲。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：“Katherine Rundell’s Rooftoppers, like her previous novel The Girl Savage, is the work of a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination. I admire her novels very much, and I hope they find the success they deserve. I’m certainly looking forward to her next.”

ROOFTOPPERS is already being hailed as a classic of children’s literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson; ‘Thrilling…gripping…extraordinary…tremendous’ for The Guardian it was the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. It was published by Faber in the UK and Simon and Schuster in the US, and is published by Carlsen in Germany, Editions des Grandes Personnes in France, Rizzoli in Italy, Salamadra in Spain, and by publishers in Brazil, Portugal and Turkey.

*Winner of the Blue Peter Award*《

*Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize*

*Shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize*

*Nominated for the Carnegie award*

*Longlisted for the UKLA award*

*SLJ Book of the Year*

About the Author/作者介绍： 凯瑟琳•朗德尔出生于1987年，她从小在非洲和欧洲长大。2008年，凯瑟琳被评选为牛津万灵学院成员。出于对津巴布韦以及在那里度过的童年的热爱，她创作了第一部小说《野姑娘》。而创作《屋顶人》的灵感则来自于她在巴黎工作过的那个夏天，以及她在夜晚擅闯牛津学院屋顶的经历。作者现正攻读其博士学位，同时正进行其成人小说作品的创作。

Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book, The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there. Rooftoppers was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges. She is currently working on her doctorate alongside an adult novel.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：SOLD

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Italian(Rizzoli), German (Carlsen) and US (S&S) and French: Editions Grandes Personnes

rights have sold in 24 languages

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