The Land of the Silver Apples

by Nancy Farmer

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J ack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He
is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training.
When his sister, Lucy, is stolen by the Lady of the
Lake, he calls upon his ashwood staff to subdue a passel
of unruly monks and, for his daring, ends up in a knuck-
er hole. The story is unforgettable—for the boy and for
readers—as are the magical reappearance of the berserk-
er Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a
slave girl from Jack’s village, and the eager-to-marry-her
Bugaboo (a hobgoblin king); and kelpies, yarthkins, and
elves (not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the
fallen angels of legend). Rarely does a sequel enlarge so
brilliantly the world of the first story. Look for the conclu-
sion in The Islands of the Blessed in Fall 2009.

Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor Books,

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm; A Girl Named Disaster; and The
House of the Scorpion, which also won the National Book
Award and was named a Printz Honor Book. She lives
with her husband in Menlo Park, California.

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