The last are called Marodors, each a chimera of other beasts like “some botched experiment.” The magic is wielded by the (nearly) all-girl inhabitants, such as beautiful Faerydae, who finds Archibald and brings him to relative safety. Now in a strange new world called Lemurea, Archibald explores the land-encountering girls, magic, and monsters. Even weirder, the globe has an odd mechanism that emits a bright light in a flash of thunder-and then somehow absorbs Archibald within itself. Searching for hidden Christmas presents, Archibald discovers a centuries-old globe that shows misshapen continents with peculiar creatures inhabiting them. Archibald finds himself on a thrilling adventure full of medieval magic, mysterious symbols, and the strangest beasts, while Hailee-who witnessed her brother's disappearance-embarks on a daring quest to find him.In this debut middle-grade fantasy novel, a boy unlocks a magical globe and enters a world where witches fight monsters.Īrchibald Finch, almost 12 years old, has just moved from London with his family to the rambling, creepy Hertfordshire mansion that his father inherited. One day, as he's exploring the cavernous house, he finds a curious globe that whisks him away to a secret world, hidden for 500 years.
But these turn out to be the least of Archibald's problems. Now he has to deal with hairless dolls in the library, weird stone creatures on the roof, and a spooky forest at the edge of the backyard.
Things get worse when his parents move the family from London to his grandmother's creepy manor in the English countryside.
Īrchibald is a risk-averse boy with quirks that earn him plenty of eye-rolls, especially from his older sister, Hailee. Befriended by a band of young witches, Archibald Finch must quickly adapt to survive in Lemurea, where a battle born in the Middle Ages is still unfolding. Description History, magic, and adventure collide in this riveting middle-grade fantasy novel about an unusual boy who unlocks an ancient relic-and, with it, a forgotten world.
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