Reckless II: Living Shadows

Name: Reckless II: Living Shadows
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781782691259
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By Cornelia Funke

Series: The Mirrorworld Series

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Jacob has saved his brother's life but now faces a deadly curse symbolised by a moth on his breast, destined to return to its fairy mistress. He must quickly find a dead king's head and a magical weapon to save himself. Alongside the shape-shifter Fox, Jacob discovers the fight is about more than just survival.
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Jacob has paid a high price for saving his brother's life: soon the moth on his breast, a sign of the fairies' curse, will unfasten herself to fly back to her mistress, and Jacob will be condemned to death. A race against time begins, as he embarks on a hunt for a dead king's head and his magical weapon, which may be his only hope.

Once again Jacob joins forces with the beautiful shape-shifter Fox, who makes him realise that he may be fighting for more than his life...

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Sunday Times: A wonderful storyteller.
The School Librarian: A superb series, intriguing and mesmerising in the telling.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782691259

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 September 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pushkin Children's Books

Contributors:

Translated by Oliver Latsch
Translated by Oliver Latsch

Audience: Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 416

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Cornelia Funke Series: The Mirrorworld Series Young Adult

About the Author

Cornelia Funke is the highly acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author of the Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord and numerous other children's novels and picture books. Born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten, she worked as a social worker for a few years before turning first to illustration and then to writing. Her books have now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 37 languages.

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