The Moon Child

by Cate Cain

Overview

Three months on from the shattering events in St Paul's, Jem has swapped kitchen drudgery for the life of a young gentleman. But when Ann is kidnapped, Jem and Tolly are catapulted back into a world of threat and evil. After experiencing a vision of Ann on board a ship, the pair stow away on The Fortuna, heading for the American colonies. But Ann is nowhere to be found on the ship. When crew members begin to go missing and strange and sinister things start happening, Jem and Tolly realise they are in serious danger once more. What if Count Cazalon isn't really dead?

The chilling sequel to the highly acclaimed THE JADE BOY.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783701230
Publisher:	Bonnier Books UK
Publication date:	09/01/2014
Series:	Children of the Fire , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	556 KB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Cate Cain is the pen name of Katherine Griffin. She currently works for the Society of Protection of Ancient Buildings in London, and has previously worked for the Sir John Soane Museum. She also writes a weekly column for the Watford Gazette in Hertfordshire. Cate began her career training as a teacher and then went into journalism. She lives in St Albans. Follow Cate on Twitter: @KateAGriffin.
Cate Cain is the pen name of Katherine Griffin. She currently works for the Society
of Protection of Ancient Buildings in London, and has previously worked for the Sir
John Soane Museum. She also writes a weekly column for the Watford Gazette in
Hertfordshire. Cate began her career training as a teacher and then went into
journalism. She lives in St Albans.

Editorial Reviews

2016-06-01
A spooky series second-parter takes a 17th-century 13-year-old English boy and his friends across the Atlantic to the magical New World.Jem, an unacknowledged bastard son of Charles II with "gypsy looks," is overjoyed that he's soon to see his friends Tolly and Ann. The pair has been traveling with a troupe of players since the trio's joint escape from wicked Count Cazalon at the conclusion of The Jade Boy (2013). Their celebration goes horribly wrong when an evil force spirits away gentle, white 12-year-old Ann. Though the well-meaning adults all hope to rescue Ann, Tolly and Jem hare off on their own rescue mission—only to find themselves on a trans-Atlantic ship journey. Psychic Tolly, the African former slave, can magically tell that Ann is somewhere aboard, but where? Their quest is aided by the kindly ship captain and his crewman Mingan, a "noble savage" stereotype who's both bizarre and unpalatable. The Native American Mingan has no named tribe but merges characteristics of native nations from across North America with the usual fantasy native fare of werewolves and skinwalkers, along with the more inexplicable: constant reference to his waist-long hair threaded with "scores of tiny white skulls." Entertaining if rife with stereotype; Joseph Bruchac's Wolf Mark (2011) is both comparable and better. (Fantasy. 10-12)

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