Peckham Anthony - Children Of The Black Glass - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Howl's Moving Castle meets Neil Gaiman in this dark and flinty (Booklist) middle grade fantasy set in a world as mesmerizing as it is menacing following children on a quest to save their father who get embroiled in the sinister agendas of rival sorcerers. In an unkind alternate past somewhere between the Stone Age and a Metal Age Tell and his sister Wren live in a small mountain village that makes its living off black glass mines and runs on brutal laws. When their father is blinded in a mining accident the law dictates he has thirty days to regain his sight and be capable of working at the same level as before or be put to death. Faced with this dire future Tell and Wren make the forbidden treacherous journey to the legendary city of Halfway halfway down the mountain to trade their father's haul of the valuable black glass for the medicine to cure him. The city ruled by five powerful female sorcerers at first dazzles the siblings. But beneath Halfway's glittery surface seethes ambition violence prejudice blackmail and impending chaos. Without knowing it Tell and Wren have walked straight into a sorcerers coup. Over the next twelve days they must scramble first to save themselves then their new friends as allegiances shift and prejudices crack open to show who has true power.
Title: Children Of The Black Glass
Author(s): Peckham Anthony
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781665913140
Pages: 384 Pages, F-C Cvr (Spfx: Foil On Matte, Coated); Digital
Publication Date: 4/2/2024
Series: Children of the Black Glass
Category: Fantasy & Magical Realism (Children's / Teenage)