although A Year Has Passed, Not A Day Goes By Without Meggie Thinking Of Inkheart, The Book Whose Characters Became Real. But For Dustfinger, The Fire-eater Brought Into Being From Words, The Need To Return To The Tale Has Become Desperate. When He Finds A Crooked Storyteller With The Ability To Read Him Back, Dustfinger Leaves Behind His Young Apprentice Farid And Plunges Into The Medieval World Of His Past. Distraught, Farid Goes In Search Of Meggie, And Before Long, Both Are Caught Inside The Book, Too. But The Story Is Threatening To Evolve In Ways Neither Of Them Could Ever Have Imagined.
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in This Spellbinding Follow-up To Inkheart, Funke Expertly Mixes Joy, Pain, Suspense And Magic. In The Opening Chapter, Dustfinger Returns To Inkheart, The Fantastic Novel (within Funke's Novel Of The Same Name) From Which He Was Sprung, And His Devoted Apprentice, Farid, Asks Meggie To Use Her Magical Reading Powers To Send Him Into The Story. Meggie, Lured By The Place Of Marvels And Adventures, Goes With Him. Her Parents Soon Follow. The Omniscient Narrator Allows Readers To Jump From The Real World To Inkworld, Where A War Is Brewing Between Ombra Castle And The Evil Adderhead's Castle Of Night. Worse, Meggie's Father, Mo (aka Silvertongue), Is Mistaken For A Robin Hood-type Figure Known As The Bluejay And Is To Be Executed. Readers Will Race Along With Meggie And Other Inkheart Favorites As The Characters Try To Create A Happy Ending. Funke Again Cleverly Plays With The Power Of Words: Fenoglio, The Author Of Inkheart, Now Lives In The World He Created And Continues To Write New Story Lines-which Play Out In Often Unintended Ways (e.g. He Bases The Bluejay Character On Meggie's Father, Putting Mo In Danger). This Is A Thick And Dark Book (the Magpie Shoots Mo, Nearly Killing Him, And Basta Appears For A Final Showdown), As Well As Sophisticated-especially The Romance Blossoming Between Farid And Meggie, And Dustfinger's Complicated Relationship With Meggie's Mother. There Is Much Left To Explore; Readers Will Eagerly Await The Last In The Planned Trilogy. Ages 8-up. (oct.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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Publisher : The Chicken House
Author : Funke, Cornelia
Language : English
Edition : Translation
Published :2005-10-01
Number Of Pages : 635
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0439554004
ISBN-13 : 9780439554008
Item weight : 1.76 lb
Dimensions : 1.73 in x 6.46 in x 7.87 in
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