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    <title>This dark endeavor</title>
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    <namePart>Oppel, Kenneth</namePart>
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  <genre authority="gsafd">Fantasy fiction.</genre>
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    <publisher>Simon &amp; Schuster BFYR</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2011</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2011</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>In the 18th century when his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva, sixteen-year-old  Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.</abstract>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Kenneth Oppel.</note>
  <note>MSBA Nominee 2012-13.</note>
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    <topic>Juvenile fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <topic>Juvenile fiction</topic>
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    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PZ7.O614 Thi 2011</classification>
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