false 52638 30 In <I>Abarat</I>, novelist and artist Clive Barker turns his talents to creating a rich fantasy world for young adults.<p> Candy Quackenbush is growing up in Chickentown, Minnesota, yearning for more--which she finds, quite unexpectedly, when a man with eight heads appears from nowhere in the middle of the prairie, being chased by something <I>really</I> monstrous. And so begins Candy's epic adventure to the islands of the Abarat. Peopled by all manner of creatures, cultures, and customs, the islands provides a fertile setting for the series that Barker is calling <I>The Books of Abarat</I>. The characters are deftly drawn, both in words and in the full-color interior art that Barker has produced to give the story an extra dimension.<p> <I>Abarat</I> delivers the rich and imaginative storytelling that Barker is known for, with less overt horror or violence than one of his adult novels might include. However, Candy's path isn't an easy one, and young adult readers should appreciate the hard choices she must make along the way. <I>--Roz Genessee</I> 2785303 book 2002 Abarat (Abarat, #1) total:2580|5:910|4:917|3:544|2:163|1:46| 2580 10222 3347 269 5 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 19 10:10:34 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 06:50:54 -0800 2008
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If you like fantasy or science fiction or horror or anything along that particular slant, read. this. book.

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Abarat is the first of planned four volumes, but the series seems to have stopped after the ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 08:55:40 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 08:36:36 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 18 17:51:06 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 16:57:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 09:54:27 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 14:55:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 16:20:17 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 01:56:25 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jul 09 01:02:33 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 01:13:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jun 23 16:56:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 16:56:06 -0700 2009
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It is the philosophers in their cities;
It is the map-makers in their wastelands.
It is roads and milestones,
Is is panic, laughter and sobriety;
White, and all enumerated things.
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