The castle behind thorns
When Sand, a blacksmith's apprentice, wakes up in a broken castle, he must find a way to put it back together.
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- ISBN: 0062008196
- ISBN: 9780062008190
- Physical Description 327 pages : map
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : Katherine Tegen Books, [2014]
- Copyright ©2014
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Target Audience Note: | "Ages 8-12"--P. [2] of cover. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 21.00 |
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The Castle Behind Thorns
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The Castle Behind Thorns
Stories don't know everything. When Sand wakes up alone in a long-abandoned castle, he has no idea how he got there. The stories all said the place was ruined by an earthquake, and Sand did not expect to find everything inside torn in half or smashed to bits. Nothing lives here and nothing grows, except the vicious, thorny bramble that holds Sand prisoner. Why wasn't this in the stories To survive, Sand does what he knows best--he fires up the castle's forge to mend what he needs. But the things he fixes work somehow better than they ought to. Is there magic in the mending Or have the saints who once guarded this place returned When Sand finds the castle's lost heir, Perrotte, they begin to untwine the dark secrets that caused the destruction. Putting together the pieces--of stone and iron, and of a broken life--is harder than Sand ever imagined, but it's the only way to regain their freedom. With gorgeous language and breathtaking magic, Merrie Haskell's The Castle Behind Thorns tells of the power of memory, story, forgiveness, and the true gifts of craft and imagination.