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Empire of Gut and Bone (Norumbegan Quartet #3)
Murder! Mystery! Rebellion! From bestselling and National Book Award-winning author M.T. Anderson, a third visit to the world of THE GAME OF SUNKEN PLACES.
The land of New Norumbega is an unusual one--an empire of gut and bone, a kingdom of blood and mucus. At its dark, dry heart is a ruling class that doesn't care about much besides itself . . . and a ruler who is (litera...more
The land of New Norumbega is an unusual one--an empire of gut and bone, a kingdom of blood and mucus. At its dark, dry heart is a ruling class that doesn't care about much besides itself . . . and a ruler who is (litera...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
June 1st 2011
by Scholastic Press
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In the third installment of this series, Brian and Gregory wander through a kingdom of gut and bone and one consisting of various body organs such as a heart and a liver inside a huge body. They want the Norumbegans to help them deal with an alien attack back on earth. But the Norumbegans themselves are self-absorbed and briefly preoccupied with a revolt of their own that may be coming from within or from without. As the boys try to navigate their way through this alien land, led by a stub of a...more
How can I explain this book? It's scary this entire series makes me tense and parts of each have made me have to put the book down breathe skip ahead and check to see if my favorite people are not dead. This book takes place in a rather claustrophobic setting the inside of a great beast. Brian and Gregory have gone through a portal to try to get help from the 'good' guys to stop the Thrusser horde from taking over the world and merging people with their homes. The help they find is apathetic and...more
Meh. I'm really loosing patience with this storyline, and I was really hoping it would be a trilogy, but no, it appears we have more books to go before it's over (and I don't think I'll be reading them/it). I quite liked the first book, the second was scary and somewhat intriguing, but this one lacks much of anything that appeals to me. It's kind of boring, a little gross (it's set almost entirely inside a possibly dead body, hence Gut and Bone), and I have little sympathy for any of the charact...more
Talk about a convoluted, overly complicated "mystery" that isn't really all that interesting. Also how many more books will there be in this series?! The story is far from being over. I'm done reading them, though; it's just not good enough to keep going.
I received this book for free from a giveaway at Teenreads.com. I liked the book fairly well, but I can tell I am misssing a lot because I have not read the first 2 books in the series. Sarcastic and funny.
Age 9-12 boys will adore this book! Gut and Bone indeed! Adventure in it's most disgusting bodily form will keep them reading.
I was so angry while reading this book! It was really good but the Norumbegans were really getting on my nerves! I just can't describe. I do hope Brian finds a way to get rid of the thussers since it feels like it's totally impossible with the way the Norumbegans wave them off as.
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Matthew Tobin Anderson (M. T. Anderson), (1968- ) is an author, primarily of picture books for children and novels for young adults. Anderson lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His picture books include Handel Who Knew What He Liked; Strange Mr. Satie; The Serpent Came to Gloucester; and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. He has written such young adult books as Thirsty, Burger Wuss, Feed, The...more
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His picture books include Handel Who Knew What He Liked; Strange Mr. Satie; The Serpent Came to Gloucester; and Me, All Alone, at the End of the World. He has written such young adult books as Thirsty, Burger Wuss, Feed, The...more
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