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Children of the Black Glass (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
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Children of the Black Glass (Hardcover)
Series: Children of the Black Glass, 1
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Loot Price R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
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Howl's Moving Castle meets Neil Gaiman in this middle grade
fantasy, set in a world as mesmerizing as it is menacing, following
children on a quest to save their father who get embroiled in the
sinister agendas of rival sorcerers. In an unkind alternate past,
somewhere between the Stone Age and a Metal Age, Tell and his
sister Wren live in a small mountain village that makes its living
off black glass mines and runs on brutal laws. When their father is
blinded in a mining accident, the law dictates he has thirty days
to regain his sight and be capable of working at the same level as
before or be put to death. Faced with this dire future, Tell and
Wren make the forbidden treacherous journey to the legendary city
of Halfway, halfway down the mountain, to trade their father's haul
of the valuable black glass for the medicine to cure him. The city,
ruled by five powerful female sorcerers, at first dazzles the
siblings. But beneath Halfway's glittery surface seethes ambition,
violence, prejudice, blackmail, and impending chaos. Without
knowing it, Tell and Wren have walked straight into a sorcerers'
coup. Over the next twelve days they must scramble first to save
themselves, then their new friends, as allegiances shift and
prejudices crack open to show who has true power.
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