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The Tasters Guild / Susannah Appelbaum ; illustrated by Jennifer Taylor. --
Eleven-year-old Ivy Manx sets out with her friends for the dangerous city of Rocadadour, where poison and the evil Tasters Guild rule, in the hopes of finding a door to the sisterland of Pimcaux and fulfilling a great and ancient prophecy.
Record details
- ISBN: 0375851747
- ISBN: 9780375851742
- Physical Description: xiii, 366 p. : ill. --
- Edition: 1st ed. --
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2010.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 19.99 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Adventure fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A follow-up toThe Hollow Bettle finds 11-year-old healer Ivy and her taster friend Rowan venturing inside the corrupt Tasters Guild in order to locate a door to the parallel world of Pimcaux and fulfill a portentous prophecy. - Baker & Taylor
Eleven-year-old Ivy Manx sets out with her friends for the dangerous city of Rocamadour, where poison and the evil Tasters Guild rule, in the hopes of finding a door to the sisterland of Pimcaux and fulfilling a great and ancient prophecy. - Random House, Inc.
The Poisons of Caux, Book II
A macabre and funny fantasy trilogy
After the perilous adventure of The Hollow Bettle (Book I), the dark reign of the Nightshades is over at last, and a new day has arrived in Caux, a land long ruled by poison and deceit. The ancient Prophecy-the coming of a Noble Child to cure the one, true King-has finally begun.
But fear still grips the people of Caux, for they live in the shadow of the powerful, poisonous Tasters' Guild. Sequestered high within its corrupt walls sits Vidal Verjouce, the Guild's diabolical Director, his dark magic more potent than ever. Eleven-year-old Ivy, famed healer and Noble Child, and her friend and taster Rowan must venture inside the Guild itself if they are to find the door to their sister world, Pimcaux-and fulfill the Prophecy. But a deadly weed-once thought extinct-threatens their journey: scourge bracken, a plant dedicated to domination and destruction, also known, ominously, as Kingmaker. Who else has detected it? And will Ivy's remarkable gift-her dominion over plants and nature-be enough to thwart it?
Susannah Appelbaum's imagination soars with poison inks, flower codes, catacombs, secret crypts, and sinister twists in this middle volume of the macabre and magical Poisons of Caux fantasy trilogy.
