The Nowhere Thief
A mind-bending multiverse adventure about theft, family, and finding your home. Twelve-year-old Elsbeth has an extraordinary power: she can travel to parallel worlds and bring objects back with her. But as freak weather events become more frequent and a strange boy, Idris, starts to turn up everywhere she travels, she has to ask herself: does her gift come with a price?
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A mind-bending multiverse adventure about theft, family, and finding your home. Twelve-year-old Elsbeth has an extraordinary power: she can travel to parallel worlds and bring objects back with her. But as freak weather events become more frequent and a strange boy, Idris, starts to turn up everywhere she travels, she has to ask herself: does her gift come with a price?
If you would like to be invoiced for this product, please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help
A mind-bending multiverse adventure about theft, family, and finding your home. Twelve-year-old Elsbeth has an extraordinary power: she can travel to parallel worlds and bring objects back with her. But as freak weather events become more frequent and a strange boy, Idris, starts to turn up everywhere she travels, she has to ask herself: does her gift come with a price?
If you would like to be invoiced for this product, please email julia@chestnutbooks.co.uk with an order number and we’ll be happy to help
We love this book because it is:
a unique adventure across different dimensions
great for introducing complex story plots with multiple settings
about two children struggling to find their place in the world
about friendship & family
Learning opportunities:
Writing: create your own somewhere and write a description of it
PSHE: Elspeth steals from other somewheres. Is she a bad person? Are her actions justified?
PSHE: trust ~ what makes a person trustworthy? Does Elspeth trust the right characters?
PSHE: family relationships. Compare Elspeth and her mum’s relationship to Idris and his grandmother.
Reading: how does our opinion of Racine change throughout the story?
Writing: write a diary entry after Elspeth discovers the truth about her family
Comparison: compare with other books where characters travel through time or space (eg. Strange World’s Travel Agency, Train to Impossible Places, Alex Nobody)
Writing: create your own method of travelling through time/space. How would it work?
Writing: design an object from another Somewhere
DT: make a kaleidoscope
Follow the link to Nosy Crow for discussion ideas & resources: Nosy Crow
