Impossible Creatures, the first book in a fantasy series by Katherine Rundell, arrived in the United States as a #1 Kids' Indie Next List pick and an immediate bestseller. The thrilling sequel, The Poisoned King, will be released simultaneously in the U.S. and the U.K. next month.
In Impossible Creatures, readers met Christopher Forrester who, while holidaying at his grandfather's remote lakeside cabin in Scotland, learned the family secret: they are the guardians of the passageway to the Archipelago, a "riotous, glorious place" where humans live alongside mythical creatures.
Now, in The Poisoned King, Christopher has returned home to the non-magical world but wants nothing more than to travel back to the Archipelago. When he wakes to a dragon chewing on his face, he is thrilled--it is his invitation back to the land of fantastical creatures. But all is not well in the Archipelago: a terrible poison is tainting the land. And, at the center of it all, Anya: a small girl with a flock of birds at her side and a newly hatched chick in her pocket.
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