Highly enjoyable, it should find many readers. This fast-paced, fully imagined fantasy is by turns frightening and funny, and the siblings are well-crafted and empathetic heroes.

If Stephens's characterizations sometimes dip into cliché (grumpy, Scottish-ish dwarves noble/heroic natives an effete evil assistant), few will mind. Adventures follow, featuring murderous zombielike Screechers, time travel paradoxes, and multiple revelations about Dr. CRITICS HAVE SAID 'This fast-paced, fully imagined fantasy is by turns frightening and funny, and the siblings are well-crafted and empathetic heroes. There they do battle with a beautiful witch who has terrorized and enslaved the local people in her unsuccessful search for the very book the children possess. While exploring their palatial yet decrepit new home tucked away in the Adirondacks, the children discover a magical green book, which transports them into the recent past. Order within 18 hrs 19 mins Select delivery location In Stock Qty: 1 Buy Now Payment Secure transaction Ships from Sold by Returns Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt Payment Secure transaction We work hard to protect your security and privacy.

They have since spent 10 years in a series of unpleasant orphanages the last of these-which, oddly enough, houses no children but themselves-is run by the eccentric Dr. This promising first volume in debut author Stephens's Books of Beginning trilogy concerns siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma, who, when very young, were taken from their parents to protect them from unspecified forces of darkness.

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