Maya is a displaced youngster, arriving in Paris with her family and being thrust into a group of strangers who speak in a language she doesn't understand when her family moves to France for her father's new job. French relatives being to appear in her life, including Louise, a nondescript cousi...
The Cabinet of Earths is a great book. Like on the back of the book someone commented, "Reading this book is like discovering a treasure chest full of wonderful things," Well... I agree! It is a great story though, there are some parts that I didn't understand like, why Valko wasn't helping Maya,...
Towns do it, too. On the way to Hungary, Noah and his parents spent a day in the Czech city of Karlovy Vary, which — as Noah’s dad explained as they walked to dinner — used to be a German-speaking town called Karlsbad. Before the Second World War, it had been the sort of place where people went t...
the magician said finally, as the coach lurched around some last corner and quivered to a halt before a sullen-fronted tavern, its windows painted black to fend off curious eyes. “The good old Death and Dollop!”Linny was already reaching in some desperation for the door of the coach, but the magi...
Only instead of a tired soldier, of course, it was a ghostly swirl of shadow and dust coming up the path toward her now, the echo of a person. That echo kept evolving, too—holding on to its human form for a second or two, and then, as a breath of air met it, losing its edges, rippling, fading, un...