Sent to a boisterous family gathering in Ireland by her overly strict grandmother, orphaned Hayley feels out of place until her unruly cousins include her in a special game involving travel through the mythosphere, the place where all the world's stories can be found, and where some secrets of her p
Diana Wynne Jones's Magic and Myths Collection (The Game, the Power of Three, Eight Days of Luke, Dogsbody): collection
β Scribed by Diana Wynne Jones
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers;HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks
- Year
- 2014;2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Edition
- EPub edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Take a fantastical journey through the worlds of magic and myth with the award-winning Diana Wynne Jones. This exclusive ebook collection of four titles contains The Game, Power of Three, Eight Days of Luke and Dogsbody. Welcome to the world of Diana Wynne Jones, where magic and myths collide to take you on a fantastical journey with strange and unusual characters. In The Game, Hayley is packed off to live in Ireland with her aunts and cousins. Here she is introduced to 'the game', which takes her into a forbidden world of mythical stories, and might lead her to finally understand her family's secrets. Power of Three introduces us to Gair β the only member of his family without a gift. But when a powerful force threatens his family and his people, Gair might find out he's not as ordinary as he thinks... In Eight Days of Luke, it's the holidays and all David can see is weeks of boredom and misery with his terrible relatives. But when Luke arrives and David enters into a bargain...
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