Seven Sorcerers
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Nin had never liked Wednesdays, but this one took the biscuit. On this Wednesday she woke up to find that it was raining buckets and that her brother had ceased to exist.
Nin realizes she is the only person to remember Toby because whoever took him is about to make her disappear too. Enter Skerridge the Bogeyman, who steals kids for Mr. Strood. With his spindle, he draws all memories of Nin out of her mother's head. She escapes to the Drift, a land filled with the fabulous and the dreadful. What is the sorcerers' secret and will Nin and Toby escape their fate at the House of Strood?
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Nin realizes she is the only person to remember Toby because whoever took him is about to make her disappear too. Enter Skerridge the Bogeyman, who steals kids for Mr. Strood. With his spindle, he draws all memories of Nin out of her mother's head. She escapes to the Drift, a land filled with the fabulous and the dreadful. What is the sorcerers' secret and will Nin and Toby escape their fate at the House of Strood?
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Product details
- 10+
- Paperback | 352 pages
- 130 x 197 x 25mm | 268g
- 15 Feb 2011
- Hachette Children's Group
- Quercus Children's Books
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- UK ed.
- w. Ill.
- 1849161550
- 9781849161558
- 466,907
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'A contender for great openings of the year ... truly moving and involving' Sunday Times. Sunday Times
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'A contender for great openings of the year ... truly moving and involving' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times * 'A richly inventive fantasy - gripping, intricate, sometimes melancholy, occasionally gruesome, but quickened with deft touches of humour' Financial Times. * Financial Times * 'Rich with extraordinary incident and a whole new perspective on bogeymen ... a vivid evocation of a place peopled with strange beings and immersed in magic. Who could ask for more?' Daily Telegraph. * Daily Telegraph * 'A contender for great openings of the year ... truly moving and involving' Sunday Times. * Sunday Times * 'A richly inventive fantasy - gripping, intricate, sometimes melancholy, occasionally gruesome, but quickened with deft touches of humour' Financial Times. * Financial Times * 'Rich with extraordinary incident and a whole new perspective on bogeymen ... a vivid evocation of a place peopled with strange beings and immersed in magic. Who could ask for more?' Daily Telegraph. * Daily Telegraph *
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About Caro King
Caro King studied Art and has had a variety of jobs since then, including working at the office of the official receiver and as a greengrocer's assistant. Seven Sorcerers came from a rainy lunchtime when she began mapping out the world of the Drift. Skerridge and his waistcoat came later. She lives in Croydon.
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