The Nine Pound Hammer

Spine lightly creased, corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing, reading crease, Scholastic nameplate on front end paper. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ;
Book One of the Clockwork Dark trilogy, includes an excerpt from "The Wolf Tree" (book two). ; The Clockwork Dark; 6" - 7" Tall; 357 pages; " When twelve-year-old Ray falls in with a band of young sideshow performers traveling through the South in a rickety old train, he feels at home for the first time in years. But something strange is going on. From a locked train car, Ray hears hypnotic singing. And the performers themselves - the strong man, the fire-eater, the blind sharpshooter . . . Their talents seem almost magical. Ray investigates and discovers that the old stories about John Henry and Johnny Appleseed are true in ways he never would have dreamed, that an ancient evil these characters fought is rising again, and that Ray himself may have a place in new stories only now being written.
"In the first book of the Clockwork Dark trilogy, John Claude Bemis draws upon the rich history of America's tall tales to create a white-knuckle fantasy adventure. "

Product Info

ISBN: 0375855653

ISBN-13: 9780375855658

Publisher: Yearling Books

Year: 2009

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

Seller Info

OrielisBooks

Address: 1 Martha Lane Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Website: https://www.orielisbooks.com

Country: United States