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Twelve-year-old
N3ick Reynaud,
escaping his
abusive uncle
and cousin,
runs away from
home one snowy
Maine night
and ends up at
the dor of
Evil Wizard
Books,
presided over
by the
curmudgeonly
Evil Wizard
Zachariah
Smallbone.
While kept
captive as the
wizard’s
apprentice and
boy-of-all-work,
Nick explores
the bookshop,
teaching
himself magic
with the help
of a series of
very snarky
textbooks.
Soon Nick is
embroiled in
the Evil
Wizard’s feud
with the
French
werewolf
Fidelou and
his pack of
motorcycle-riding
followers, who
aim to take
over the
(surprisingly
strange)
little town of
Smallbone Cove
that the
wizard has
ruled for
centuries. A
delightful,
inventive, and
out-of-the-ordinary
fantasy. (Vermont
Dorothy
Canfield
Fisher Book
Award,
2018) |
| SUBJECTS: Action and adventure fiction. Boys -- Fiction. Fantasy fiction. Good and evil -- Fiction. Wizards -- Fiction. |
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