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| Author: | Jonathan Stroud |
| Reading Level (Conceptual): | Children 12 and up |
| Reading Level (Vocabulary): | Children 12 and up |
| Genre: | fiction |
| Year of publication: | 2003 |
CAUTION: This wonderful trilogy features characters with whom the reader will fall in love, and significant violence that has predictable consequences. Please, before recommending this first volume to a sensitive young reader, either read the whole trilogy or read our reviews of book two and, especially, book 3. Sardonic musings of a demon summoned by an academically under-challenged 12 year old apprentice wizard. | |
Together, they save Civilization as they know it. First in a trilogy. Luckily, unlike Inkheart and Eragon, this book's sequels are already in print. -- Emily Berk | |
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