The Lost Wonderland Diaries: Secrets of the Looking Glass - by J Scott Savage (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Celia and Tyrus must travel through another secret diary of Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) into the Looking-Glass World to save their reflections, which have been stolen by the Bandersnatch, and reunite the warring Red and White Kingdoms"--

Book Synopsis

After returning from Wonderland, Celia and Tyrus journey to the Looking-Glass World to reclaim their mirror images and stop a war between two powerful queens.

When a dark creature called the Bandersnatch steals Lewis Carroll's lost diaries, Celia and Tyrus try to get it back but are tricked into passing through a magic mirror into the Looking-Glass World, a place where everything--themselves included--are divided in two, like identical twins. Celia's astute logic and Tyrus's exceptional imagination now belong to their mirror images, Lia and Ty, who are generals in the Red Queen's Army, which is at war against the White Kingdom.

Left without their greatest problem-solving skills, Celia and Tyrus must rely on each other more than ever as they play a massive game of chess to try to catch their mirror images, who always seem to be one step ahead of them. Along the way, they engage in a rhyming battle with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, seek advice from Humpty and Dumpty, and learn how to believe in the impossible from the White Queen, who remembers the future as if it were the past.

As the final battle draws near, Celia and Tyrus form an uneasy alliance with Lia and Ty in order to find the legendary vorpal sword--the only weapon powerful enough to stop the war. If they fail, not only will two kingdoms be destroyed, but Celia and Tyrus might never regain their stolen talents and be trapped in the Looking-Glass World forever.

Review Quotes

"Celia and Tyrus take another amazing adventure. J. Scott Savage is an artist with words. With fantastic details and imagination, the author has a canny ability to sew words together and sculpt whimsical and mind-bending ideas into words which add to the delight of the story. Of the many lessons in this book, we are reminded that words can be wishes or weapons. The story amazingly flies by with agility and speed. The author is very good at hooking his reader and keeping the story fast paced." -- "Compass Book Ratings"

About the Author

J. Scott Savage is the author of the Mysteries of Cove and Farworld middle-grade fantasy series. He has published more than seventeen novels, visited more than 1,400 schools, and taught dozens of writing classes. He has four children, five grandchildren, and lives with his wife, Jennifer, in a windy valley of the Rocky Mountains.