<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Soon after waking up on her tenth birthday to find a silver crown on her pillow, Ellen's house burns down, her parents disappear, and she is launched on an adventure involving a trek through the woods, a castle full of brainwashed captives, and the powerful Hieronymus Machine which wants her crown.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In this gripping and memorable middle grade fantasy from Newbery Medal-winning author Robert C. O'Brien<i>, </i> good and evil are locked in battle and the balance between the two can only be restored by one young girl's determination to set things right.</b> <p/><i>"It lay beside her on the pillow, shinier than silver, glowing softly, with twinkling blue stones set all around....It did not occur to her to wonder from whom it had come; she was merely aware that it was hers by right."</i> <p/>Ellen awakens one morning with a mysterious silver crown on the pillow beside her. What magic powers it possesses she has not yet discovered, but the sudden changes in her life are unmistakable: her house is burned down, her family has disappeared, and a man in a dark uniform is stalking her. Can Ellen ever find her family? Can she use the power of the silver crown to thwart the powers of darkness? What diabolical force hides inside the mysterious castle in the woods?
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