The Land of the Silver Apples

THE CHILDREN

FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS

BRAVE THEIR WORST

NIGHTMARES -- UNDERGROUND.

Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; stolen a second time in her young life, as he learns to his terror. Caught between belief in the old gods and Christianity (790 AD, Britain), Jack calls upon his ash wood staff to subdue a passel of unruly monks, and, for his daring, ends up in a knucker hole. It is unforgettable -- for the boy and for readers -- as are the magical reappearance of the berserker Thorgil from a burial by moss; new characters Pega, a slave girl from Jack's village, and the eager-to-marry-her Bugaboo (a hobgoblin king); kelpies; yarthkins; and elves (not the enchanted sprites one would expect but the fallen angels of legend). Rarely does a sequel enlarge so brilliantly the world of the first story. Look for the conclusion in The Islands of the Blessed in 2009.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 08/21/2007
ISBN: 9781416907350
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 9.33h x 6.28w x 1.57d
Award: Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended
Award: Cybils - Finalist

Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 07/01/2007 pg. 663
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2007 pg. 394
Kliatt 07/01/2007 pg. 14
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2007 pg. 253 - Recommended - Better Than Most
School Library Journal 08/01/2007 pg. 114
PW Notes and Reprints 07/30/2007 pg. 86
Booklist 08/01/2007 pg. 70
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2007 pg. 82 - Recommended
Kirkus Best Children's Books 11/15/2007 pg. 1
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2008 pg. 12
Booklist 05/15/2008 pg. 52

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 117964 / Land of the Silver Apples
Reading Level: 5 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 17