Zack Loran Clark

The Lock-Eater

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Produktbeschreibung

For fans of Nevermoor and Howl's Moving Castle comes an epic middle grade fantasy about a girl with the ability to unlock anything-including the empire's darkest secrets. Melanie Gate is a foundling with a peculiar talent for opening the unopenable-any lock releases at the touch of her hand. One night, her orphanage is visited by Traveler, a lifeless gearling automaton there on behalf of his magical mistress, who needs an apprentice pronto. When Melanie is selected because of her gift, her life changes in a flash, and in more ways than she knows-because Traveler is not at all what he seems. So begins an epic, overland adventure sparkling with magic, humor, secret identities, stinky cats, fierce orphan girls, impostor boys, and a foundling and gearling hotly pursued by the most powerful and dangerous wizard in the land. Along the way, Melanie never expects to uncover the source of her own true powers-or learn that she may be the key to saving the empire. "Zack Loran Clark has spun a new classic. Perfect next read for fans of classics by Ursula LeGuin and Diana Wynne Jones." -Eliot Schrefer, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of The Lost Rain Forest series Story Locale: magical Grand Aeder Empire

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: 9 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 141mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781984816887
• ISBN-10: 1984816888
• Artikelnr.: 62120690

Autorenporträt

Zack Loran Clark is a writer and editor of children's books, and the co-author of The Adventurers Guild trilogy. A lifelong fantasy nerd, avid Dungeons & Dragons player, and aspiring sorcerer, he lives with his husband and their dog in Brooklyn, New York.