Abarat

English

Series: Abarat Ser.

ISBN: 0060280921

EAN: 9780060280925

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Science Fiction/Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic/Juvenile Fiction / General/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 10/01/2002

Age Range: 13-null

Synopsis: Once upon a world where time is place a journey beyond imagination is about to unfold.... It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. Candy Quackenbush lives in Chickentown, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, its not one she expects. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away. Where? To the ABARAT: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from the Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight waters of Eight in the Evening, to the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of Gorgossium, the island of Midnight, ruled over by the Prince of Midnight himself, Christopher Carrion. As Candy journeys from one amazing place to another, making fast friends and encountering treacherous foes -- mechanical bugs and giant moths, miraculous cats and men made of mud, a murderous wizard and his terrified slave-she begins to realize something. She has been here before. Candy has a place in this extraordinary world: she is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered. Shes a strange heroine, she knows. But this is a strange world. And in the Abarat, all things are possible.

Awards: Bram Stoker Awards – null  International Horror Guild Awards – null  Original Voices Award – null 

Abarat

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.25 inches

Width: 6.13 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 38.17 oz

Pages: 432