The Game of Sunken Places (The Norumbegan Quartet, Book 1)

by M. T. Anderson

Overview

From bestselling and National Book Award-winning author M. T. Anderson comes the paperback reissue of a middle-grade adventure starring two of the most disarmingly deadpan boys you'll ever meet.When Brian and Gregory receive an invitation to stay at a distant relative's strange manse . . . well, they should know better than to go, but since this is a middle-grade adventure novel, they go anyway. Why not? Once there, they stumble upon The Game of Sunken Places, a board game that mirrors a greater game for which they have suddenly became players. Soon the boys are dealing with attitudinal trolls, warring kingdoms, and some very starchy britches. Luckily, they have wit, deadpan observation, and a keen sense of adventure on their side.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545283045
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Series:	The Norumbegan Quartet , #1
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Lexile:	670L (what's this?)
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

M.T. Anderson is the author of The Game of Sunken Places; the National Book Award-winning, Michael L. Printz Honor book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party; and the Michael L Printz Honor book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom of Waves, as well as Feed and Thirsty. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.