Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars

Name: Hester Hitchins and the Falling Stars
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SKU: 9781460763179
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By Catherine Norton

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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... Read More

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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?

Awards
Shortlisted - Book Links Award for Children's Historical Fiction 2025

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781460763179

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 July 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 217.0mm

Weight: 401g

Pages: 256

Collections

Catherine Norton Children's Books Children's Fiction Children's Historical Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Historical Fiction Young Adult

About the Author

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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