Days of Magic, Nights of War
About this book
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something new. She lives in Chickentown, Minnesota, has a drunkard father, and is often made fun of by other kids. One day at school, a strange image enters her head, and she draws it in a textbook. When her teacher notices, she is furious, and Candy has the sudden impulse to simply walk out of school. She wanders around town before coming to a vast field with an old lighthouse, and wonders why there would be a lighthouse where there is no sea for thousands of miles. She soon has her answer. Candy is thrust into the Abarat, a fantastic archipelago of twenty-five islands: one for each hour of the day, plus one extra: the mysterious Time Out of Time. Candy feels as if this place is familiar to her, and makes many friends, but all is not well: Christopher Carrion, Prince of Midnight, is pursuing her. Candy must find her place in this strange new world.
The Books of Abarat · 3 books
In publication order- 3 Absolute Midnight 2011
- Abarat 2002 This book
- Days of Magic, Nights of War 2004
Subjects
- children's fiction
- fantasy
- fantasy fiction
- fiction
- fiction, fantasy, general
- good and evil
- juvenile fiction
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 5
- reading level-grade 6
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- space and time
- space and time, fiction