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Book Reviewed by:Characters from books literally leap off the page in this engrossing, action-packed fantasy by the author of The Thief Lord.
From the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Thief
Lord comes a thrilling new adventure about magic and self-discovery.
Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a bookbinder. But her father
has a deep secret -- he possesses an extraordinary magical power. One cruel
night, as Meggie's father reads a book called Inkheart aloud, an evil
ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their
living room. Suddenly, the two are plunged into the kind of adventure Meggie has
only encountered in fiction, and they must somehow learn to harness the magic
they were reading about to change the course of the story -- before it ruins
their lives forever.
With over 80 reader reviews for Inkheart at BookBrowse, with an average rating of 5 stars, it's clear that this engrossing literary fantasy is a hit with its target audience!..continued
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Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, Westphalia. Although she is one of Germany''s best-selling children's book authors, she was relatively unknown in the United States until The Chicken House, whose books are published by Scholastic in the United States, published The Thief Lord in September 2002. The Chicken House's publisher and managing director, Barry Cunningham, received a letter from a bilingual (English and German) young girl living in England, who wanted to know why her favorite author wasn't published in English. Barry set about the task of tracking down the latest title from Cornelia Funke, Herr Der Diebe. When he published its...
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