Across the Great Barrier (Frontier Magic, Book 2)
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Beschreibung des Verlags
From New York Times #1 bestselling author Patricia C. Wrede, the second in the series of magic on the western frontier.Eff is riding west, away from the safety of the frontier city she's always known.... Eff could be a powerful magician if she wanted to. Except she's not sure she wants that kind of responsibility. Everyone keeps waiting for her to do something amazing--or to fail in a spectacular way. Worse, her twin brother, Lan, a powerful double seventh son, is jealous of all the attention she's been getting. Even as Eff protests that she's just an ordinary girl, she's asked to travel past the Barrier Spell with one of the new professors at her father's school. The land west of the Barrier is full of dangers, both magical and wild. Eff will need to use all her strength--magical and otherwise--to come safely back home. With wit, magic, and a touch of good pioneer sense, Patricia C. Wrede once again weaves a fantastic tale of the very wild west.
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A sequel to Thirteenth Child, this adventure is set in an alternate 19th-century America where prehistoric mammals and dangerous magical creatures coexist. Eighteen-year-old Eff Rothmer is still getting used to the idea that she has managed to save a good part of the frontier from deadly magical mirror bugs. Unwilling to accompany her twin brother, Lan, to a university back east, she yearns to cross the Great Barrier Spell to the frontier. ("I didn't think the Settlement Office would hire a girl fresh out of upper school with no experience and no great knack for magic to be a circuit magician," she thinks.) Soon, however, Eff once again heads west as part of a scientific expedition, where she discovers bizarre phenomena and hitherto unknown creatures, some of which will put the settlers in deadly peril. Eff's narrative voice is warm and colloquial, and Wrede's descriptions of an imaginary American continent are taut and scrupulously detailed. Strong secondary characters, compelling use of magical elements, and a pensive portrayal of how serious scientists and magicians might ply their trade result in a layered historical fantasy. Ages 12 up.
