Candy easily finds friends and guides among its fantastical inhabitants, including Samuel Klepp (publisher of the indispensable Almenak) and the downtrodden slave Malingo but she also accumulates powerful enemies in the dastardly wizard Wolfswinkel, the ambitious tycoon Pixler, and Shape’s terrifying master Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight. Helping the improbable John Mischief (whose seven brothers all grow from horns on his head) escape creepy Mendelson Shape, Candy magically summons the Sea of Izabella, which links our world to the archipelago of Abarat, where the chief islands are each governed by a single Hour of the day. After a typically brutal school day, she runs away to the prairie, only to fall into a most extraordinary adventure. Candy Quackenbush is fed up with her life of “boredom, violence, and tears” in unbearably ordinary Chickentown, Minnesota. A new series revives the almost-extinct genre of the fantasy travelogue.
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