The House with Chicken Legs Award-winning
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Product description
A breathtaking reimagining of the Russian fairy tale of Baba Yaga, The House with Chicken Legs is the award-winning, spellbinding story of one girl’s adventure to find her destiny.
Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal
Shortlisted for Children’s Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
Marinka dreams of a normal life, where her house stays in one place long enough for her to make friends. But her house has chicken legs and moves on without warning.
For Marinka’s grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother’s footsteps, but her house has other ideas…
“Enticing, a little bit dangerous, and thrumming with possibilities.” Kiran Millwood Hargrave
“A magical tale… a captivating and original retelling of a traditional story straight out of folklore. Beautiful escapism.” Sunday Express
Product Details
Catalogue number
711 in Setanta Primary September 2025, 8126 in Schools Catalogue 2025/26 and 1566 in Setanta Ed Cat Autumn 2025
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781474940665
Publisher
Date published
May 3rd, 2018
Lexile measure
770L
Accelerated Reader
AR book level: 5.0; Middle years; 9.0 points
Other details
- 336 pages
Condition
New
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on 3 October 2020House with Chicken Legs
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Jennifer
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I love this
My daughter loves this book xx