＂The beauty of sky, music, and the belief in ’extraordinary things’ triumph in this whimsical and magical tale＂ (Publishers Weekly) about a girl in search of her past who discovers a secret rooftop world in Paris.

Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck that left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive--but ＂almost impossible＂ means ＂still possible.＂ And you should never ignore a possible.

So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian, threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, they takes matters into their own hands and flee to Paris to look for Sophie’s mother, starting with the only clue they have--the address of the cello maker.

Evading the French authorities, she meets Matteo and his network of rooftoppers--urchins who live in the hidden spaces above the city. Together they scour the city in a search for Sophie’s mother--but can they find her before Sophie is caught and sent back to London? Or, more importantly, before she loses hope?

Phillip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials series, calls Rooftoppers ＂the work of a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination.＂


絶不忽視任何一種可能性。」

2014年英國卡內基兒童文學獎入圍好書
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憑著信念，在船難中倖存的蘇菲背上她最愛的大提琴，依靠僅有的線索，從倫敦來到巴黎。她在舊城區的屋頂上認識了俠肝義膽的「屋頂俠」，遇見嬌小可愛的「樹居人」，還碰到凶神惡煞的「鐵路人」……

身懷絕技、住在空中的這些人，會是她尋覓母親的重要線索嗎？滿懷希望的蘇菲，是否能在這個典雅堂皇的城市裡，順利找到她摯愛的母親？

一首二重奏的安魂曲、一場屋頂上的飛跑競賽以及一趟精采又刺激的尋親之旅，透過作者充滿感性的優美文字，傳遞著自由、勇氣與希望的力量。

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