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Summer in Orcus - by T Kingfisher (Paperback)

Summer in Orcus - by  T Kingfisher (Paperback) - 1 of 1
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Highlights

  • Summer is a perfectly ordinary 11 year old girl with a perfectly ordinary, needy, over-protective single mother.
  • 8.0" x 5.25" Paperback
  • 272 Pages
  • Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy

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About the Book



Summer is a perfectly ordinary 11 year old girl with a perfectly ordinary, needy, over-protective single mother. She loves her mother but wonders what it would be like to be allowed to experience just a little adventure... maybe? When Baba Yaga turns up and offers her the chance to find her heart's desire, then plunges her into the strange worl



Book Synopsis



Summer is a perfectly ordinary 11 year old girl with a perfectly ordinary, needy, over-protective single mother. She always does what she is told and has become very good at listening and consoling her mother's fears, but finds the experience increasingly exhausting. Summer loves her mother and would never dream of running away, but wonders deep down if it wouldn't be nice to escape for just a little while and do something adventurous... maybe?

Along comes the crone Baba Yaga in her magical walking house, who spies Summer through the alley gate and offers to provide her heart's desire. Summer has no idea what this might be, but with the lighting of a frog-shaped beeswax candle she finds herself transported to the strange world of Orcus with nothing but a weasel in her pocket.

Like any girl of her age, she's read lots of fantasy books about people thrust into strange lands; but they usually seemed to have had some idea what they were supposed to do there.

Join Summer as she attempts to follow glimpses of turquoise across Orcus with the help of a weasel, a wolf with a house problem, and an aristocratic hoopoe with a penchant for trouble. Along the way she just might figure out what she is looking for, save a wondrous thing, and realize that some of the talents which she takes for granted are mighty useful indeed.



Review Quotes




"It's Wes Craven meets L. Frank Baum, or Narnia for those of us who thought Narnia smiled without showing enough of its teeth." - KB Spangler, author of Digital Divide

"Summer's mother is way too protective, and kind of damaged, and achingly human in a way that ends up doing a lot of harm while trying to do the exact opposite." - Kathryn Adams (Pixelated Geek, 2017)

"It's a story about being scared and tired and lost, and about making friends, and doing the things one can do rather than learning how to be a completely different person." - Russ Allbery (eyrie.org, 2017)

"This is for everyone who hasn't forgiven Aslan, or Glinda, but understands now what was really happening." - Sigrid Ellis (Goodreads, 2016)


Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.25 Inches (W) x .57 Inches (D)
Weight: .63 Pounds
Sub-Genre: Fantasy
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Number of Pages: 272
Publisher: Sofawolf Press, Inc
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: T Kingfisher
Language: English
Street Date: November 1, 2017
TCIN: 1002713310
UPC: 9781936689590
Item Number (DPCI): 247-27-4007
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.57 inches length x 5.25 inches width x 8 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.63 pounds
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