The Shadow Lantern (Blackhope Series #3)

by Teresa Flavin

Overview

Sunni and Blaise face their most dangerous challenge yet in their third and final adventure.

When a mysterious oil lantern and a box of painted slides appear at Blackhope Tower, Sunni and Blaise are drawn back to the place where their adventures first began. When they discover that the slides conceal secrets about artist-magician Fausto Corvo, the pair find themselves once again caught up in a deadly pursuit. An old enemy is still tracking Corvo and will stop at nothing to find him. Sunni and Blaise must fight to protect Corvo’s secrets and rid themselves of Soranzo’s evil threat once and for all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763670245
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	07/22/2014
Series:	Blackhope Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Teresa Flavin was born in New York and studied art in Boston and at Syracuse University. After moving to Glasgow, Scotland, she was awarded the Scottish Arts Council New Writers Bursary. She has illustrated a number of picture books. Her first novel, The Blackhope Enigma, was nominated for a Cybil Aard. Teresa Flavin lives in Scotland.

I was born in New York and my family moved around New England when I was growing up. Our house was always full of books and I loved to read, especially Nancy Drew mysteries. The first book I ever bought was A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett—I found it in a book sale for only five cents and it even has the author’s autograph! The first painting I remember making was of a Hawaiian lady swimming the backstroke under a palm tree. It was just a stick figure but I was hooked. Ever since then, making pictures has been my favorite activity.

I studied illustration in art school and knew that one day I would illustrate books. I made a huge move to the United Kingdom, where I illustrated a number of picture and chapter books for children and young adults. One day I began writing my own stories to illustrate. Although at first I made up stories for children’s picture books, I sometimes wondered about writing a novel for older readers. When the idea for The Blackhope Enigma came to me, I put everything into it. I learned a lot about being a writer and was so proud when it was published in the U.K. and the U.S. I knew that there needed to be more stories about the main characters, Sunni and Blaise, so I wrote The Crimson Shard and I I feel incredibly lucky to be able to write and illustrate my own stories!

Three Things You Might Not Know About Me:
1. I used to be a DJ and I love all kinds of music.
2. I bake a mean chocolate cake.
3. I love snorkeling!

Editorial Reviews

The third and final volume of the Blackhope series begins with some engaging realistic scenes with Sunni and Blaise before the teens step into the chaotic fantasy realm, where their relationship becomes secondary to their quest and their survival. A surprise near the end offers a satisfying twist for Blackhope fans.
—Booklist

Descriptions are rich.
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

04/01/2014
Gr 6 Up—Sunni and Blaise, the timeslip adventurers who travel through paintings, discover lantern slides that lead them to artist-magician Fausto Corvo. When an old enemy threatens, the teens must protect Corvo's secrets.

School Library Journal

2014-05-04
In this, their third art adventure, Sunni and Blaise are inexorably pulled back to the painting The Mariner's Return to Arcadia in Blackhope Tower, the setting of their first encounter with the artist/sorcerer Fausto Corvo and villain Soranzo (The Blackhope Enigma, 2011).Sunni and Blaise are sure that Corvo's three magical paintings are safely hidden within Arcadia. They steadfastly kept this secret even when they were kidnapped and held in 18th-century London (The Crimson Shard, 2012). But when a "spirit photographer" shows up at Blackhope Tower with an Oculus—a shadow lantern—along with painted slides created by Corvo, both mystery and chase are reopened. With events unfolding on Halloween, and with the addition of a ghost who has her own agenda, Sunni and Blaise are almost stretched to their limits. As before, descriptions are rich, but readers who have not followed the duo's adventures through the first two books may be hopelessly lost, despite constant references to past adventures. In fact, the fill-ins slow the pace considerably, leaving only die-hard fans curious about the surprising fate of the three paintings or the burgeoning romance between Sunni and Blaise. For most readers, the first two mysteries will have sufficed. (Fantasy. 9-12)

Kirkus Reviews