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Brennan, Sarah Rees. IN OTHER LANDS Easthampton, Mass. : Big Mouth House, [2017] IL YA ISBN 9781618731203
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What if you left your regular ordinary life to enter a world of fantasy and then discovered that magic kind of… sucks? Like sure, mythical beasts are cool but do you know how hard it is to write with a quill? And there isnt any electricity, not even toasters! Also, there’s a lot of war, and the majority of people being sent to fight are just teenagers. This is what Elliot discovers when he crosses the wall into the borderlands of a magic realm and becomes a student at a training camp that prepares students to fight in the ongoing territory disputes between humans and magical creatures. Everyone else is either from the magical world and just accepts this reality, or is so excited about mermaids, trolls, and harpies being real that they don’t care. So it’s up to Elliot along with his two friends (and maybe more?), Serene Heart in the Chaos of Battle and Luke Sunborn, to figure out a way to end all of the magical in-fighting without more bloodshed and maybe even introduce sharpies and toasters to the borderlands while he’s at it. (Georgia Peach Book Award, 2020) |
| SUBJECTS: Elves -- Fiction. Mermaids -- Fiction. Imaginary places -- Fiction. Diplomats -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Coming of age -- Fiction. Bisexuality -- Fiction. Fantasy. |
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