Kent Davis

A Riddle in Ruby (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ruby is a thief-in-training and a keeper of secretsones she doesn't even know herself. A Riddle in Ruby is the first book in a witty and fast-paced fantasy-adventure trilogy for fans for Jonathan Stroud, Septimus Heap, and The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates.

Ruby Teach, daughter of a smuggler and pirate, has been learning how to swindle and steal and pick the most complex locks for as long as she can remember. But a collision with aristocratic young lord Athen sends her spinning into chaos. Little did she know that her whole life has been spent in hiding from nefarious secret societies and the Royal Navy . . . who are both now on her trail. In this debut middle grade adventure, Kent Davis weaves a rip-roaring tale through an alternate colonial Philadelphia. A world where alchemythat peculiar mix of magic and sciencehas fueled the industrial revolution. With this highly original setting, a cast of fully rounded characters and rapid-fire, funny dialogue, A Riddle in Ruby will call to mind fantasy greats like Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Altersempfehlung: ab 1 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062368362
• Artikelnr.: 42550720

Autorenporträt

Kent Davis is an actor, a game designer, and a teacher. He lives in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife and a wily dog ninja named Bobo. Kent Davis teaches in the Honors College at Montana State University, a fact by which he is constantly surprised. This is his first book.