Davin

Published
Mar 1997
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
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Pages
170

About This Book

Outside, World War II rages gravely as German planes drop bombs over London. Inside one family's home, a boy lies ill in bed.  Before leaving to fight in the war, his father told him about Davin, a teddy bear that holds the power to make sick boys well.  But things look bad--no one knows where Davin is.

In an attempt to save their friend, the miniature figures of a little Bugle Boy, a blustery Sergeant Major, a princess, Robin Hood, Chingachgook, and Perseus, the Greek hero, come to life and join forces to find the mysterious Davin.  Along the way, they encounter a ferocious cat, a man-eating spider, the Dark Knight, and Blackbeard and his band of terrifying pirates.

Read by Grandma Goddess to her grandchildren as they lie in their beds, Davin is a story within a story.  A thrilling adventure for boys and girls, it is a fantasy in which literary and historical characters clash in a war between good and evil to save a child's life.

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Jun 1998 Yearling ISBN 0440411920
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First Edition Mar 1997 Delacorte ISBN 0385322216
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