The Apothecary
By Maile Meloy

Genre: YFB
Paperback
Published by Text Publishing
Published 29 Aug 2011
ISBN: 9781921758171

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Jamie Scott is perfectly happy with her friends and her life in California, Everything changes when a mysterious black car follows her home from school.
Her parents tell her they are US Marshalls and so they decide to leave for London, England. Jamie struggles to settle in her strange new world until she
meets the apothecary, and more importantly his son Benjamin. Benjamin’s Dad is no ordinary apothecary and when he is kidnapped, Jamie
and Benjamin find themselves entrusted with his sacred book, the Pharmacopoeia. However, the Russians will stop at nothing to get their
hands on it, and who is the Chinese chemist Jin Lo? With help from some unexpected friends, Jamie and Benjamin embark on a quest to save the apothecary
and help him prevent a nuclear disaster. This is a wonderful adventure story that lets your imagination run riot with the elixirs the teenagers make from the “Pharmacopoeia”.

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