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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

"Waiting On" Wednesday (64): The Real Boy


"Waiting On" Wednesday...is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.


This week I'm excitedly waiting on...

The Real Boy
by Anne Ursu
9/24/13
Walden Pond Press

From Anne Ursu, the author of one of the most widely acclaimed middle-grade novels in recent memory, comes a new fairy-tale adventure of magic and friendship.

On an island at the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy. The city is called Asteri, a perfect city that was saved by the magic woven into its walls from a devastating plague that swept through the world over a hundred years before. The forest is called the Barrow, a vast wood of ancient trees that encircles the city and feeds the earth with magic. And the boy is called Oscar, a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the Barrow. Oscar spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master's shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite fit in.

But it's been a long time since anyone who could call himself a wizard walked the world, and now that world is changing. Children in the city are falling ill and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the trees will keep his island safe. Now, even magic may not be enough to save it...

What are you waiting on this week?!

2 comments:

Michelle @ In Libris Veritas said...

Oh this sounds like an awesome MG book! I love the cover too. I really need to start reading more middle grade, I miss how much fun they are.

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Alyssa said...

Middle grade! I haven't read a middle grade novel in quite some time. I started Keeper of the Lost Cities, but I never finished it. I hope you get to read this one soon! And I hope you enjoy it :D

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