Ebook {Epub PDF} The Minnow Leads to Treasure by Philippa Pearce

A formula plot in a new locale. The legendary treasure concealed in the old Codling house is sought by David Moss and Adam Codling in Great Barley County, England. The rhymed riddle bequeathed from generation to generation by Jonathon Codling in as he left to fight the Spanish Armada, was the key which enabled the boys to unearth the jewels and save the old Codling homestead for Aunt Dinah. Minnow on the Say is a children's novel written by Philippa Pearce, first published by Oxford University Press in Like many of her books, the novel is set in the area where she grew up, specifically in an old mill near Cambridge. It was published in the United . This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This.

Minnow on the Say by Pearce, A Philippa. Puffin, UK, Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good. Ex library with laminated covers. Light reading wear. Very clean interior. On paper, the River Cam, which runs through Campbridge, became the River Say, later being published in America as The Minnow Leads to Treasure. Pearce received her first Carnegie Medal nomination for the novel. Pearce was awarded the Carnegie Medal in , which is given to the best new children's book each year. The Minnow leads to treasure by Philippa Pearce (Book) 7 editions published between 19in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This. Two boys, David and Adam, set off on their first adventure without parental supervision paddling a canoe, the Minnow, down the River Say in search of a treasure from the Spanish Armada that their imaginative reading of a poem has convinced them can be found. The Minnow leads him to Adam, and an extraordinary summer begins. Armed with a mysterious, ancient clue, the two boys set out along the river by boat. They're determined to find the legendary lost treasure, hidden by one of Adam's ancestors hundreds of years before.