Egg & spoon : a novel

In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg — a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age. When the two girls' lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and — in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured — Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs. In 1905 Czarist Russia, An Impoverished Country Girl Elena And The Aristocratic Ekatrina Meet And Set In Motion An Escapade That Includes Mistaken Identity, A Monk Locked In A Tower, A Prince Traveling Incognito, And The Witch Baba Yaga. Part One: Untimely Thunder -- The World Of Curtains -- The World In A Graveyard -- The Doctor's Curse -- Farther Afield -- Tea Brewed From Salt Tears -- Double Lighting -- Thunder On The Rails -- The Accidental Guest -- Mamenka's Gift -- The Apple -- The Porridge -- Pay Attention Day -- The Ghostly Daughters Of Miersk -- The Egg -- Part Two: Iron House, Chicken House -- Two Girls Misplaced -- Trapped -- Surprise Day -- The Hand At The Window -- The Morning Is Wiser Then The Night -- You're Not Yourself Today -- Two Cats -- Discovery -- The Hut In The Woods -- Onward To Saint Petersburg -- The Reluctant Student -- The Progress Of Dumb Doma -- Two Moons In The Long Wet Night -- Miss Yaga -- A Grey Rainbow -- Part Three: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg -- Sharing -- Vitebsky Station -- Curses And Penalities -- A Fresh Enchantment -- The Hunger Of Children -- The News Of The Evening -- Landfall -- Traffic -- The Floating Pavillions Of The Tsar -- The Treasury Of Marvels -- Admission Denied -- The Tsar Of All The Russias -- Meanwhile On The Other Side -- A Divertimento -- The Presentation Of The Gift -- Vanished -- The Marvels Deliver Their Opinion -- Under Arrest -- Part Four: Fire And Ice, Ice And Fire -- A Wasp In The Jam -- Brother Uri -- An Audience With The Tsar -- The Second Night Of The Festival -- The House Of Solitary Confinement -- North -- Together -- The League Of Freed Prisioners -- The Snow Tornado -- Moths -- Perplexity -- Myandash -- The Sneezing Cave -- Žmey-aždaja -- The Starry Crown -- Still Later -- Part Five: Home Again, Home Again -- The Teeth Of The Beast -- The Dragon-tooth Boy -- The Part-time Hero -- A House Has Its Secrets -- Armies Meet By Moonlight -- The Immortal Hen Of The Tundra -- The Norway Geese -- On The Bridge Near Archangel -- The Kitten's Advice -- The Word Of The Tsar -- All Aboard Who Are Going Aboard -- The Graveyard In Springtime -- The Doctor's Advice -- After. By Gregory Maguire. Accelerated Reader 5.6. Boston Globe/horn Book Fiction Honor, 2015. Boston Globe/horn Book Picture Book Honor, 2015. In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg#8212;a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age. When the two girls' lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and#8212;in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured#8212;Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsars army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elenas age. When the two girls lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and in a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjured Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs In 1905 czarist Russia, an impoverished country girl Elena and the aristocratic Ekaterina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga An impoverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga