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The casket of time / Andri Snaer Magnason ; translated from the Icelandic by Björg Árnadóttir and Andrew Cauthery.
Van Pelt - Notable Juvenile Books PT7511.A49 T5513 2019
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- Author/Creator:
- Andri Snær Magnason, 1973- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Tímakistan. English
- Language:
- English
- Icelandic
- Subjects (All):
- Time--Juvenile fiction.
- Time.
- Princesses--Juvenile fiction.
- Princesses.
- Hibernation--Juvenile fiction.
- Hibernation.
- Problem solving--Juvenile fiction.
- Problem solving.
- Time--Fiction.
- Princesses--Fiction.
- Hibernation--Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Genre:
- Children's stories.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Science fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 259 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Restless Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Yonder Restless Books for Young Readers, 2019.
- Summary:
- Teenage Sigrun is sick of all the apocalyptic news about the "situation" and, worse, her parents' obsession with it. Sigrun's family--along with everyone else--decides to hibernate in their TimeBoxes, hoping for someone else to fix the world's problems . But when Sigrun's TimeBox opens too early, she discovers an abandoned city overrun by wilderness and joins a band of kids who are helping a researcher named Grace solve the "situation." The world, according to Grace, is under an ancient curse. There once was a princess named Obsidiana, who was trapped in time by the greedy king of Pangea. To protect Obsidiana from dark and gloomy days, the king put her in a crystal casket made of spider silk woven so tightly that time itself couldn't penetrate. The king's greed for power doomed his kingdom and the trapped princess. Sigrun sees eerie parallels between the tale of Obsidiana and the present-day crisis, and realizes it's up to her and her friends to break the ancient curse and fix the world.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Icelandic.
- ISBN:
- 9781632062055
- 1632062054
- OCLC:
- 1090426980
- Publisher Number:
- 99989828676
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