The Castle Key - Dundurn

The Castle Key

Published September 2000

Paperback
$ 8.95

Description

Twelve-year-old Moon lives with her father after her mother disappears, leaving her with nothing but a beautiful ring, which also mysteriously vanishes. After her mother’s departure, her father has become unusually depressed and moody. Moon, however, firmly believes that she will see her mother again and develops a strong interest in magic as a way to find her. Her breakthrough comes when she finds a strange key in the office of Ms. Tanglemoth, the intimidating school librarian. When Moon holds the key, she is transported back in time as an invisible observer to the middle ages, where young Nora, who bears a strong resemblance to Moon’s mother, is oppressed both by her father and his enemies. Moon gradually realizes that she and the key are the means to giving Nora’s murdered ghost peace and to restoring her own mother to her. But how exactly is this to be accomplished?

Contributors

Karen Krossing

Karen Krossing was born and raised in Richmond Hill, Ontario KarenÂ’s first short story, "Dragon's Breath," was published in 1998 in Opening Tricks, a collection of the third Thistledown Press young adult short story competition. The Castle Key was her first novel for children. Karen loves books about magic, and secretly believes that magic is real. But she also enjoys gritty, realistic fiction and non-fiction. She currently lives in Toronto.

Book Details

Paperback
September 2000
5.125x7.5 in
176 pp
9780929141763
ePub
September 2000
-
176 pp
9781459716629