Bibliograph

Edgeland, Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski

Type

Label

Edgeland, Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski

Language

eng

Illustrations

music

Index

no index present

Intended audience

For upper primary school age

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Edgeland

Responsibility statement

Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski

Summary

Here is one of the natural wonders of this world: a whirlpool thirty miles wide and a hundred miles around. This is the Drain. Anything sucked into its frothing, turbulent waters is never seen again. Wren has spent most of her life on Edgeland, a nearby island where people bring their dead to be blessed and prepared for the afterlife. There the dead are loaded into boats with treasure and sent over the cliff, and into the Drain. Orphaned and alone, Wren dreams of escaping Edgeland, and her chance finally comes when traders arrive with their dead, and treasure for their dead. With the help of her friend Alec, Wren plans to loot one of the boats before it enters the Drain. But the boat -- with Alec and Wren onboard -- is sucked into the whirlpool. What they discover beyond the abyss is beyond what anyone could have imagined

Target audience

pre adolescent

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