Product Details
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
电子书mobi+epub
Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (July 28, 2015)
Language: English
The Accidental Afterlife of Thomas Marsden - Emma Trevayne电子书mobi+epub
The Accidental Afterlife of Thomas Marsden Hardcover – July 28, 2015
by Emma Trevayne (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Afterlife-Thomas-Marsden/dp/144249882X
What if you found your own grave—and it wasn’t empty? Discover the dark delights of faeries and fortune-tellers in this gently spooky book from the author of Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times, sure to appeal to fans of Coraline.
Grave robbing is a messy business.
A bad business. And for Thomas Marsden, on what was previously an unremarkable spring night in London, it becomes a very spooky business. For lying in an unmarked grave and half covered with dirt is a boy the spitting image of Thomas himself. This is only the first clue that something very strange is happening. Others follow, but it is a fortune-teller’s frightened screams that lead Thomas into a strange world of spiritualists, death, and faery folk. Faery folk with whom Thomas’s life is bizarrely linked. Faery folk who need his help.
Desperate to unearth the truth about himself and where he comes from, Thomas is about to discover magic, ritual, and the uncanny truth that sometimes the things that make a boy ordinary are what make him extraordinary.
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
Gr 4–7—From the first chapter, Trevayne will have readers intrigued. On the eve of Thomas Marsden's 12th birthday, he and his father are out after dark looking for graves to rob. It's 19th-century London, and grave robbing is how Thomas and his father keep food on the table and the tallow candles burning. Thomas has developed a knack for "finding the bones": the sense of knowing which grave might hold the plunder they can sell in order to fill their bellies and put coal in the home fire. On this night, the first grave's yield is two silver coins. The second grave is fresh, and there is no coffin, just a body, one that is identical to Thomas, even down to the blemish on his cheek. There are also faeries living in London, trapped in the basement of a grand home belonging to a spiritualist named Mordecai. These faeries were brought to London against their will by Mordecai and able to speak for the dead, making him rich and famous. Even the queen has come to him in order to speak to her dead husband. The faeries are entrapped by evil magic and the iron that hurts and weakens them. The oldest of them, Deadnettle, has a plan to help them escape back to their world. The key is Thomas Marsden. Finding the grave of his "twin" leads Thomas to the faeries and to his destiny. Full of mystery and suspense, this fantasy adventure presents a likable main character, an eye into historical London, and an opportunity to recognize that sometimes it is our very ordinariness that makes us special. VERDICT A first purchase.—Kathy Kirchoefer, Henderson County Public Library, NC
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