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Dark whispers

Title:

Dark whispers

Author:

Coville, Bruce, author.

Series:

Unicorn chronicles ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Seeking to unravel the secret of the long enmity between unicorns and delvers, Cara travels through a strange underground world to the court of the centaur king; and while on Earth, Beloved and her hunters make final plans to jump to the fantasy land of Luster in order to drive the unicorns to extinction.

Audience:

6.4 Follett Library Resources

3-6 Follett Library Resources

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

464 p. : map ; 22 cm.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Subject Term:

Unicorns -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Scholastic Press,

Publication Date:

2008

ISBN:

9780590459518

Publication Information:

New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.

Call Number:

M COVILLE

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
33607002110198	Middle Fiction	COVILLE	Searching... Unknown	Searching... Unavailable

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Summary

This is a riveting tale of two quests. In the first, Cara Diana Hunter searches for an ancient story that may unravel the secret of a long enmity between the unicorns and the monstrous delvers. In the second, Cara's father journeys to free her mother from the Rainbow Prison. As Cara travels through the strange and terrifying underground world of the delvers and to the court of the centaur king, her father travels from mysterious India to the depths of the Rainbow Prison itself. Who can be trusted? Who is the enemy? Readers will be at the edge of their seats with this multistranded story filled with wonder and suspense.

Author Notes

Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse, New York, on May 16, 1950. He spent one year at Duke University in North Carolina. Coville started working seriously at becoming a writer when he was seventeen. He was not able to start selling stories right away, so he had many other jobs, including toymaker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, Coville became an elementary teacher, and worked with second and fourth graders.

Coville married Katherine Dietz an artist, and they began trying to create books together. It wasn't until 1977 that they finally sold their first book, The Foolish Giant. They joined together on two other books after that, Sarah's Unicorn and The Monster's Ring, and followed them with Goblins in the Castle, Aliens Ate My Homework, and The World's Worst Fairy Godmother.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 5-8-Bruce Coville's long-awaited sequel (2008) to Song of the Wanderer (1999, both Scholastic) continues the suspenseful adventures of Cara Dianna Hunter, the unicorns of Luster, and Beloved, the enemy of all unicorns. Coville juggles a number of plot strands and keeps the pace nerve-racking throughout. The main stories concerns Cara's quest to discover why Beloved's delvers (hunters) hate unicorns, Meanwhile, Cara's delver father must rescue his wife from the Rainbow Prison. Many fantasy elements and figures are entwined in the tale. Coville and a full-cast of narrators do a splendid job, giving each character just the right voice, and sound effects and music add to the atmosphere of the tale. Listeners will eagerly await the fourth book in the series.-B. Allison Gray, Goleta Public Library, Santa Barbara, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.