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Gr 4–7—Alice is sent to live with her Uncle Geryon after her father's ship goes down in a storm. She's never heard of this man and doesn't know what to expect when she arrives at his mansion. The only instruction she is given is to avoid the library. Left to her own devices, she meets a talking cat named Ashes, and Isaac, a boy who challenges her to open a book from the forbidden library. Giving in to temptatio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Sent to live with a previously unknown "uncle," Geryon, on his estate known as "The Library," newly orphaned Alice breaks the rule against entering the estate's vast book repository when she discovers a clue about her father's death: the thuggish, poisonous-looking fairy she overheard arguing with him just prior to his fatal shipwreck is skulking about, trying to find something hidden in the stacks. Alice's initial investigation, however, reveals no fairy but a feral boy named Isaac,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Sent to live with "Uncle" Geryon on his estate known as "The Library," newly orphaned Alice discovers she is a Reader (a magician c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More