shopping cart
Save up to 30% on our Staff Picks
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Guests | December 7, 2009

Theodore Gray: IMG The Cornucopia of Home Science



Reading old books of science experiments for children, it's easy to become nostalgic for the days when you could buy jugs of sulfur and mercury at... Continue »
  1. $20.96 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

Ships free on qualified orders.
Add to Cart
$4.95
List price: $7.99
Used Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
1 Beaverton Children's- Science Fiction and Fantasy
1 Burnside Children's Young Adult- General

More copies of this ISBN:

Other titles in the Dark Reflections series:

  1. The Stone Light
  2. The Glass Word

Dark Reflections #01: The Water Mirror

by Kai Meyer

Dark Reflections #01: The Water Mirror Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In Venice, magic is not unusual. Merle is apprenticed to a magic mirror maker, and Serafin — a boy who was once a master thief — works for a weaver of magic cloth. Merle and Serafin are used to the mermaids who live in the canals of the city and to the guards who patrol the streets on living stone lions. Merle herself possesses something magical: a mirror whose surface is water. She can reach her whole arm into it and never get wet.

But Venice is under siege by the Egyptian Empire; its terrifying mummy warriors are waiting to strike. All that protects the Venetians is the Flowing Queen. Nobody knows who or what she is — only that her power flows through the canals and keeps the Egyptians at bay.

When Merle and Serafin overhear a plot to capture the Flowing Queen, they are catapulted into desperate danger. They must do everything they can to rescue the Queen and save the city — even if it means getting help from the Ancient Traitor himself.

Review:

"A refreshing...compelling story."

New York Times Book Review

Review:

"A complex work of high fantasy."

Publishers Weekly, starred review

Review:

"Inventive and original.... A standout [that] will have readers clamoring for thenext entry in the series."

School Library Journal, starred review

Review:

"The Water Mirror is the most original fantasy I have read in a long time. Who wouldn't want to ride on the back of a huge, black, obsidian, winged lion?"

— Annette Curtis Klause

Table of Contents

Contents

1 Mermaids

2 Mirror Eyes

3 Eft's Story

4 Phantoms

5 Treachery

6 End and Beginning

7 Through the Canals

8 Messenger of Fire

9 The Ancient Traitor

10 Sunbarks

©andcopy 2001 by Kai Meyer

Product Details

ISBN:
9780689877889
Author:
Meyer, Kai
Publisher:
Simon Pulse
Translator:
Crawford, Elizabeth D.
Author:
Crawford, Elizabeth D.
Subject:
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic
Subject:
Family - Orphans & Foster Homes
Subject:
Magic
Subject:
Fantasy
Subject:
Children's 12-Up - Fiction - Science Fiction
Subject:
Action & Adventure - General
Subject:
Fantasy & Magic
Subject:
Orphans
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Dark Reflections Trilogy, The
Series Volume:
01
Publication Date:
August 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Young adult
Language:
English
Pages:
250
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.5 in
Age Level:
12-17

Other books you might like

  1. $4.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  2. $9.00 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Elsewhere

    Gabrielle Zevin
  3. $7.99 New Trade Paper add to wish list
  4. $3.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  5. $3.50 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  6. $5.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list

    Twilight (Twilight Saga #1)

    Stephenie Meyer

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.