Charles Maxim is a scholar and as such he understands books far more readily than he understands people. He does, however, rescue a one year old baby from a shipwreck. Sophie is wrapped in the musical score of a Beethoven symphony and adrift in a cello case in the middle of the English Channel. Sophie and Charles live a most unique life until a child services organization threatens to remove Sophie to an orphanage. She and Charles flee to Paris to find the one thing that might save her: her long lost - presumed dead - mother. Sophie encounters a most unusual segment of French society - the Rooftoppers, who are instrumental in her search. The plucky heroine, the audacious urchins, and the eccentric guardian, the tour of Paris, and the sprinkling of French make this an especially appealing and satisfying read.
"Books crowbar the world open for you."
"Never ignore a possible."
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