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Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Annotation: Soon after waking up on her tenth birthday to find a silver crown on her pillow, Ellen's house burns down, her parents disappear, and she is launched on an adventure involving a trek through the woods, a castle full of brainwashed captives, and the powerful Hieronymus Machine which wants her crown.

Genre: [Fantasy fiction]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #4544390

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Edition Date: 2001 Release Date: 10/01/01

Pages: 322 pages

ISBN: 0-689-84111-6

ISBN 13: 978-0-689-84111-8

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2004541376

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Magic. Juvenile fiction.
Missing persons. Juvenile fiction.
Castles. Juvenile fiction.
Good and evil. Juvenile fiction.
Magic. Fiction.
Missing persons. Fiction.
Castles. Fiction.
Good and evil. Fiction.

Language: English

Reviews:

Horn Book (Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2007)

This fourth installment in the series has Eli, Thea, and Clyne time-traveling to cure slow pox, a plague that's crippling their society in 2020, but which has roots in ancient Jerusalem. The text is heavily reliant on earlier events and characters, and will seem hollow and confusing to readers who aren't already very familiar with the previous books.

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Horn Book (Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2007)

Word Count: 65,451

Reading Level: 5.2

Interest Level: 4-7

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.2 / points: 10.0 / quiz: 5955 / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:5.7 / points:12.0 / quiz:Q10428

Lexile: 790L

In this gripping and memorable middle grade fantasy from Newbery Medal–winning author Robert C. O’Brien, good and evil are locked in battle and the balance between the two can only be restored by one young girl’s determination to set things right.

“It lay beside her on the pillow, shinier than silver, glowing softly, with twinkling blue stones set all around....It did not occur to her to wonder from whom it had come; she was merely aware that it was hers by right.”

Ellen awakens one morning with a mysterious silver crown on the pillow beside her. What magic powers it possesses she has not yet discovered, but the sudden changes in her life are unmistakable: her house is burned down, her family has disappeared, and a man in a dark uniform is stalking her. Can Ellen ever find her family? Can she use the power of the silver crown to thwart the powers of darkness? What diabolical force hides inside the mysterious castle in the woods?

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