This is a story that will delight kids and return not-so-young readers to the magic of childhood. The Apothecary sparkles with life and possibility. What secrets does the book contain? Who is the Chinese chemist Jin Lo? And can they trust a skinny pickpocket called Pip to help them?ĭiscovering transformative elixirs they never imagined could exist, Janie and Benjamin embark on a dangerous quest to save the apothecary and prevent an impending nuclear disaster. And it seems that Russian spies are intent on getting their hands on it. But the real cure is meeting the apothecary’s son Benjamin, a curiously defiant boy who dreams of becoming a spy.īenjamin’s father is no ordinary apothecary, and when he’s kidnapped, Benjamin and Janie find themselves entrusted with his sacred book, the Pharmacopoeia. Janie feels uncomfortable in her strange new school, until the local apothecary promises her a remedy for homesickness. Read The Apothecary by Maile Meloy available from Rakuten Kobo. Listen Free to Apothecary audiobook by Maile Meloy with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your. It’s 1952 and the Scott family has moved unexpectedly from Los Angeles to London.
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