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Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles 1)
Abi Elphinstone
'Adventures are unpredictable and often terribly badly behaved – a bit like pickled onions if you’ve ever tried to fork one on a plate – but they have a way of unlocking people and turning them upside down so that all the astonishing things fizzing around inside them start to tumble out…’
Eleven-year-old Casper Tock hates risks, is allergic to adventures and shudders at the thought of unpredictable events. So, it comes as a nasty shock to him when he accidentally stumbles into Rumblestar, an Unmapped Kingdom full of magical beasts.
All Casper wants is to find a way home, but Rumblestar is in trouble. An evil harpy called Morg is sending her followers, the Midnights, into the kingdom to wreak havoc and pave the way for her to steal the Unmapped magic for herself. But Casper cannot turn a blind eye because the future of his own world, he discovers, is bound up with that of the Unmapped Kingdoms.
And so, together with Utterly Thankless, a girl who hates rules and is allergic to behaving, and her miniature dragon, Arlo, Casper embarks upon an adventure full of cloud giants, storm ogres and drizzle hags. Can he, Utterly and Arlo, the unlikeliest of heroes, save the Unmapped Kingdoms and our world from the clutches of Morg and her Midnights?
Eleven-year-old Casper Tock hates risks, is allergic to adventures and shudders at the thought of unpredictable events. So, it comes as a nasty shock to him when he accidentally stumbles into Rumblestar, an Unmapped Kingdom full of magical beasts.
All Casper wants is to find a way home, but Rumblestar is in trouble. An evil harpy called Morg is sending her followers, the Midnights, into the kingdom to wreak havoc and pave the way for her to steal the Unmapped magic for herself. But Casper cannot turn a blind eye because the future of his own world, he discovers, is bound up with that of the Unmapped Kingdoms.
And so, together with Utterly Thankless, a girl who hates rules and is allergic to behaving, and her miniature dragon, Arlo, Casper embarks upon an adventure full of cloud giants, storm ogres and drizzle hags. Can he, Utterly and Arlo, the unlikeliest of heroes, save the Unmapped Kingdoms and our world from the clutches of Morg and her Midnights?
GENRE
Children's; Fantasy
UK PUBLICATION
May 2019
Children's; Fantasy
UK PUBLICATION
May 2019
Praise
"Imaginative, adventurous and wonderful."
Robin Stevens, author of A Murder Most Unladylike series
"The Unmapped Chronicles is irresistible."
Lauren St John, author of The White Giraffe
"Abi Elphinstone has created a world so believably and effortlessly, I can only marvel."
Piers Torda, author of The Last Wild trilogy
"Brimming with enchantment and adventure."
Catherine Doyle, author of The Storm Keeper's Island
"Abi Elphinstone is proving to be a worthy successor to CS Lewis."
The Times
"Pure magic."
Michelle Harrison, author of A Pinch of Magic
"An adventure of epic proportions."
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars
Robin Stevens, author of A Murder Most Unladylike series
"The Unmapped Chronicles is irresistible."
Lauren St John, author of The White Giraffe
"Abi Elphinstone has created a world so believably and effortlessly, I can only marvel."
Piers Torda, author of The Last Wild trilogy
"Brimming with enchantment and adventure."
Catherine Doyle, author of The Storm Keeper's Island
"Abi Elphinstone is proving to be a worthy successor to CS Lewis."
The Times
"Pure magic."
Michelle Harrison, author of A Pinch of Magic
"An adventure of epic proportions."
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars
Also by Abi Elphinstone
The Unmapped Chronicles series
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Rights Sales for RUMBLESTAR
World Rights: Simon & Schuster