The History of Mischief

Author: Higgie, Rebecca ISBN: 9781925816266 Publisher: Fremantle Press Year first published: 01 Sep 2020 Pages: 376 Format: Paperback / softback In her award-winning debut novel for young adults, Rebecca Higgie takes us into the secret lives of history's mischief-makers - the philosophers and tyrants, the shapeshifters and dragons. Narrator Jessie is the girl who might just expose how they all connect. 'There is madness in it.' 'Yes. But magic too.' Following the death of their parents, Jessie and her older sister Kay move to their grandmother's abandoned house. One night they discover The History of Mischief hidden beneath the floor: it is like no book they have ever seen. From Ancient Greece to war-torn China, from the Ethiopian Empire to Victorian England, the pages reveal a world of mischief and mystery, adventure and adversity - stolen bones and fiery dragons, feisty philosophers and tempestuous tyrants, shapeshifting trees and scorched scrolls. But not everything is as it seems, in the book or in her life, and Jessie is determined to find the truth. The History has a history of its own. Unravelling its secrets might be the biggest mischief of all.