商品簡介
The mischievous Boggart comes up with some new tricks to stop an American developer from ruining his beloved island in this delightful romp from Newbery winner Susan Cooper.
Magic is once again afoot in Scotland when Allie and Jay visit their grandfather and are eagerly greeted by the Boggart, an ancient sprite, and his cousin Nessie, formerly known as the Loch Ness Monster. Things are rarely peaceful with two boggarts around, but this time a real estate developer is the one disturbing the quiet, a man named Trout.
Trout is building a luxury resort, and is desperate to buy up everything in town—including Allie and Jay’s family store. He’s willing to do almost anything to raze the store to the ground. But with his beloved family under attack, the Boggart doesn’t stay silent for long: soon bulldozers are driving themselves into the loch, and surveying flags are floating off into the sky, but Trout is unmoved. When Nessie tries to scare him by transforming into the Loch Ness Monster, Trout is delighted—what a tourist attraction he’s found!
Allie, Jay, and the Boggarts will have to use all of their wiles to outsmart the developers and save their home—even if it means waking up all the Old Magic creatures. Even the deadly ones.
作者簡介
Susan Cooper is one of our foremost children’s authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her many books have won the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in?Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel), King of Shadows and Ghost Hawk, and her magical?The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, won the Scottish Arts Council’s Children’s Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.
Stacy Curtis is the illustrator of The 7 Habits of Happy Kids series by Sean Covey. He lives with his wife and dog in Oak Lawn, Illinois.
