Bibliograph

The Cabinet of Wonders, Marie Rutkoski

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The Cabinet of Wonders, Marie Rutkoski

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

The Cabinet of Wonders

Responsibility statement

Marie Rutkoski

Series statement

Kronos chronicles, bk. 1

Summary

Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider named Astrophil who likes to hide in her snarled hair and give her advice. Her best friend can trap lightning inside a glass sphere. Petra also has a father in faraway Prague who is able to move metal with his mind. He has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world's finest astronomical clock. Petra's life is forever changed when, one day, her father returns home - blind. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. But why? Petra doesn't know, but she knows this: she will go to Prague, sneak into Salamander Castle, and steal her father's eyes back. Joining forces with Neel, whose fingers extend into invisible ghosts that pick locks and pockets, Petra finds that many people in the castle are not what they seem, and that her father's clock has powers capable of destroying their world

Target audience

juvenile

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