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HarperCollins
April 2006
400 pages
ISBN: 0060761679
Paperback (reprint)
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Young Adult Adventure | Young Adult Science Fiction
They call him Lump. Ugly, misshapen -- more goblin than
human child -- abandoned as an infant and taken in by a
witch, he is nursed by a bear, tutored by a djinn; his
only playmates are the creatures of the forest, whose
language he learns to speak.
But when Lump inevitably stumbles into the human world,
his innocence is no match for the depths of people's
cruelty, which turns his heart to stone, and fuels a
vengeance that places him and his witch mother in deadly
peril. Yet these disasters also send Lump on a journey of
self-discovery, to realms deep within the earth and far
beyond mortal imagination. In this stunning fantasy debut, Michael Gruber has
created a world that is at once deceptively familiar and
stunningly original, a world of cruelty, beauty, legend,
truth, and above all, wonder. Readers will delight in the
author's ingenious retelling of classic fairy tales and
will marvel at the stunning new tale of a boy raised by a
witch, a cat, a bear, and a demon.
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