Secret of the Shadow Beasts - Diane Magras 电子书mobi+epub
Reading age : 9 - 12 years - June 14, 2022
Product details
Publisher : Dial Books (June 14, 2022)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0735229325
ISBN-13 : 978-0735229327
Reading age : 9 - 12 years
Grade level : 4 - 7
Secret of the Shadow Beasts Hardcover – June 14, 2022
by Diane Magras (Author)
For fans of Dragon Pearl and the Lockwood & Co. series comes a swift-moving contemporary fantasy about a young girl tasked with destroying deadly shadow creatures.
In Brannland, terrifying beasts called Umbrae roam freely once the sun sets, so venomous that a single bite will kill a full-grown adult—and lately, with each day that passes, their population seems to double. The only people who can destroy them are immune children like Nora, who are recruited at the age of seven to leave their families behind and begin training at a retrofitted castle called Noye’s Hill. But despite her immunity, Nora’s father refused to let her go. Now, years after his death by Umbra attack, Nora is twelve, and sees her mother almost killed by the monsters too. That’s when Nora decides it’s time for her to join the battle. Once she arrives at Noye’s Hill, though, she and her new friends are left with more questions than answers: Where are the Umbrae coming from? Could the government be covering up the true reason their population has whirled out of control? And was Nora’s father, the peaceful, big-hearted man who refused to let Nora fight, in on the treacherous secret?
Diane Magras
From The New York Times: "Drest is a ferocious heroine...it's clear we're in the hands of a master storyteller....'The Mad Wolf's Daughter' feels like an instant classic."
Diane Magras (she/her), award-winning author of the New York Times Editors’ Choice 'The Mad Wolf’s Daughter', its companion novel, 'The Hunt for the Mad Wolf’s Daughter', and the upcoming 'Secret of the Shadow Beasts', grew up on Mount Desert Island in Maine, surrounded by woods, cliffs, and the sea. An unabashed fan of libraries (where she wrote her first novel as a teenager), history from all voices, and the perfect cup of tea, Diane lives in Maine with her husband and son.
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