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Forbidden Library

Django Wexler

2014327 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2014
first published
  • 2014Doubleday Children's · 327 pages · ENGISBN 9780857532879
  • 2015Penguin Random House · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780552568678
  • 2015Puffin Books · 400 pagesISBN 9780142426814

Do you remember the first time you climbed into the wardrobe with Lucy and emerged in Narnia? Flew on the back of Falkor the Luck Dragon with Bastian? Followed Alice down the rabbit hole? Welcome to your new favourite adventurea Late one night Alice Creighton hears her father having an argument with a fairy u a snarling, bald beast with warts and needle-like teeth. It is threatening her father, insisting he accept a mysterious offer, or elsea When Alice's father goes down in a shipwreck, she is sent away to live with distant relative Mr Geryon, owner of a huge, dark library that is off limits to Alice. After meeting a talking cat who is willing to sneak her in, Alice opens a book and suddenly finds herself inside it u and the only way out is by conquering the dangerous creatures within. Alice has stumbled into a world where all of magic is controlled by Readers through books u she must open more books, face increasingly powerful foes, be the lead character in the quest to find a happy ending.

How it feels

AtmosphereWhimsical

How it reads

Character focusSingle lead

Worth knowing

Written forMiddle grade

When and where

ThemesFamily
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