The first installment in a new fantasy duology about an accident-prone boy who embarks on a life-saving hero's journey.
From the award-winning author of The 57 Bus and Escargot comes a funny and fast-paced middle-grade fantasy, first book in a duology, about a boy on a hero's journey.
The first installment in a new fantasy duology about an accident-prone boy who embarks on a life-saving hero's journey.
From the award-winning author of The 57 Bus and Escargot comes a funny and fast-paced middle-grade fantasy, first book in a duology, about a boy on a hero's journey.
Rufus doesn't just make mistakes - he makes fatal errors. Clumsy and awkward, he feels entrapped by his teasing classmates and their constant laughter. But now it is summer. Rufus is free. He roams the wildlands of his grandfather's mysterious homestead, blissfully unaware of the danger up ahead. And there is much danger. Rufus and his snooty cousin Abigail soon become entangled in the tantalizing world of the feylings, mischievous fairly-like creatures desperate to find their way home. In helping the feylings, Rufus tumbles down a dark path rich with age-old secrets and difficult truths. Any move he makes might be his final fatal error. Or perhaps, his most spectacular beginning. Award-winning author Dashka Slater spins a tale of friendship, magic, and eternal life in this evocative and witty middle-grade fantasy.
Dashka Slater has written several books, including her non-fiction title for young adults, The 57 Bus, which received the Stonewall Book Award and was a YALSA Nonfiction finalist, among many other honors. She also wrote the picture book Escargot, which won the Wanda Gag Book Award, and its follow-up, A Book for Escargot . She lives in California.
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