Book Description
Sonia, Pedro and their classmates are baffled. Mysterious messages keep popping up on their computers, on their mobile phones, on websites they visit, even on a radio programme they listen to. It is a voice from the past – but who is trying to contact them from out of history, and why? Follow the clues from their school in modern-day Brazil through the ages to ancient Egypt, to a medieval wizard’s castle laboratory and to the ships that sailed from Europe to discover the New World. Can you solve the History Mystery? By Hans Christian Andersen award-winning author Ana Maria Machado.
About the Author
Ana Maria Machado is one of the most significant children’s book authors in Brazil. She has written more than 100 books. She started her career as a painter then worked as journalist for Elle magazine in Paris and for the BBC in London. In 1979, she opened the first children’s literature bookshop in Brazil. In 2000, Ana Maria Machado was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her life work, the most significant international prize for children’s literature.