Which Way to Anywhere
From the No.1 bestselling author of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
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- 4,49 €
Publisher Description
From the bestselling author of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON comes an out-of-this-world new series packed with epic adventure, thrilling space travel and forbidden Magic.
'Wild magic . . . fabulous' Guardian
'thrill-packed, highly imaginative' The Times
'secrets and lies, monsters and magic' Daily Mail
There is no Magic here on Earth. At least, that's what you've been told . . . But in an ordinary-looking house in an ordinary-looking village, live a group of children who are about to uncover a secret.
When 11-year-old K2 O'Hero discovers he has a Magical gift allowing him and his siblings to travel to alternative worlds (yes, there really are alternative worlds out there), some very weird things start happening. And when someone they love is in danger, the children must set off on a rescue mission to a planet on the other side of the Galaxy . . .
A family with a Magical secret . . .
A child with a powerful Gift . . .
A story that is OUT OF THIS WORLD . . .
WARNING: Contains Dangerous Space Travel and Very Illegal Magic
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Twelve-year-old twins K2 and Izzabird O'Hero know they come from a long line of magical explorers, and the mundane lineage of their new stepsiblings—12-year-old Theo and eight-year-old Mabel Smith—leads to friction between the sibling groups. Unknown to K2, who spends his time sketching maps of extraordinary alternate dimensions, he possesses the Atlas Gift, an ability that lets him create portals to other worlds through his mapmaking. One day, the family is visited by sinister professor Cyril Sidewinder, who's seeking the wielder of the Atlas Gift in order to create "a collection of maps of imaginary and real places" called An Alternative Atlas. His arrival kicks off a series of incidents culminating in an interstellar adventure involving relentless robot assassins, a snarky extradimensional bounty hunter, and the mysterious fate of K2 and Izzabird's long-missing father. The siblings' banter, and their sweetly budding friendships, anchor the madcap happenings. Told through an idiosyncratic omniscient narrator called the Story Maker, this boisterous series launch by Cowell (the Wizards of Once series)—accompanied by sketchy, highly stylized b&w art—proves chaotically fun. Cover art portrays the O'Heroes with pale skin and the Smiths with brown skin. Ages 8–12.
