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When twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan asks Timon and Eden where they have come from, she is overwhelmed by their answer: the future.
In a post-apocalyptic time, Garland's family's traveling circus troop, Maddigan's Fantasia, leaves the city of Solis once a year to perform and earn a living. However, this year Solis has given the Fantasia the crucial task of obtaining a new solar converter, the only power source in Solis, because the old one is failing.
Misfortune finds the Fantasia in their travels, and Garland's father dies in an attack by Road Rats. Then suddenly two mysterious boys, Timon and Eden, appear with their baby sister, claiming to be from the future -- a world in which the Fantasia has failed in its mission and the evil Nennog has taken power. The boys have come to help the Fantasia, but danger has followed them across time. Can the Fantasia protect Timon and Eden, and succeed in their quest to save their world?
Internationally renowned author Margaret Mahy spins a vivid tale of time travel, adventure, and magic that no reader will soon forget.
About the Author
Margaret Mahy has lived in New Zealand her entire life. A former children’s librarian, she decided to become a full-time writer in 1980. From picture books to YA novels, the age groups for which she writes vary as much as the characters in her stories. She won the British Library Association’s Carnegie medal for The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance. She has also written such books as Alchemy and Maddigan’s Fantasia. An author whose books have received many accolades and praise around the world, Mahy was awarded the Order of New Zealand, the highest honor a citizen of that country can receive, and in 2006 she was announced the winner of the International Board on Books for Young People’s Hans Christian Andersen Award, given to a living author whose works have made a lasting contribution to children’s literature.
Table of Contents
-CONTENTS-
Chapter 1 Losing Ferdy
Chapter 2 Secret Watchers
Chapter 3 Secret Followers
Chapter 4 Flowers from the Air
Chapter 5 Time Travelers
Chapter 6 The Gorge
Chapter 7 The Other Diary
Chapter 8 Getting into Gramth
Chapter 9 Meeting a Rebel
Chapter 10 Dark Happenings
Chapter 11 A Scaly Hand
Chapter 12 Into the Swampland
Chapter 13 Waking Sleeping Beauty
Chapter 14 Fantasia Fever
Chapter 15 The Apothecary's Nidus
Chapter 16 Greentown
Chapter 17 The Mind-Weed Dream
Chapter 18 The Children of Newton
Chapter 19 Human Pyramid
Chapter 20 The Tunnels of the Dead
Chapter 21 The Elegant Stranger
Chapter 22 Dancing Fireflies
Chapter 23 A Pointing Arrow
Chapter 24 Into the Library
Chapter 25 Gabrielle
Chapter 26 The Great Maddie
Chapter 27 Night Wings
Chapter 28 Hunting the Birdboys
Chapter 29 Timon Astray
Chapter 30 Strange Possibilities
Chapter 31 Sliding Through Time
Chapter 32 Saying Good-bye
Chapter 33 Back Again
Chapter 34 Boomer Flies
Chapter 35 "Don't Trust Him"
Chapter 36 Crossing the Lake
Chapter 37 Timon Revealed
Chapter 38 The Silver Girl
Chapter 39 The Duke of Souls