into the land of the unicorns by bruce coville

New mysteries arise, new secrets are revealed, as the story thunders on toward its stunning climax. This is the first volume of a series that grows more intense, detailed, and somewhat darker as it goes on. Although lots of questions are left unanswered, middle-grade unicorn lovers and fantasy fans won't mind: they'll eagerly await a sequel.' Into the Land of the Unicorns 3.99 8.99 View This Last Hunt, The 24.99 View This Secret of the Delvers 4.99 8.99 View This Song of the Wanderer 4.99 10. Coville weaves traditional unicorn myths into his light, accessible fantasy and provides a neatly contrived ending that hints at the next adventure. On the journey she learns how her family and the unicorns are entwined and earns the favor of a powerful dragon. Aided by a Lightfoot, a teenage unicorn, by bearlike Dimblethum, and by silly Squijim, Cara makes her way to the Unicorn Queen to deliver a mysterious message from her grandmother.

Review from Booklist: 'In the first volume of The Unicorn Chronicles, 11-year-old Cara narrowly escapes being captured on Earth by 'leaping' to Luster, the land of the unicorns, only to find that she is being pursued there as well. The print version has over 6,500 5 Star reviews on Good Reads. Recommended.The captivating first volume of the million-copy-selling UNICORN CHRONICLES is finally available as an ebook! Bruce Coville is a prolific childrens author, perhaps best known for his MAGIC SHOP books and MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN series. It's a great children's adventure, and Cara is a very believable young girl, brave and smart and quite believably scared by some of the things she encounters and experiences. Along the way, she meets Grimwold the dwarf and recorder of unicorn stories, Thomas the Tinker who can fix almost anything and has a truly impressive wagon, and Firethroat the dragon. He's after the necklace, or rather amulet, that her grandmother gave her, and wants to use it to bring other hunters-other unicorn hunters-to Luster to wipe out the unicorns.Ĭara needs to reach the Queen of the unicorns, to bring a message from her grandmother, and to keep the amulet safe.

Unfortunately, the hunter who was following her and her grandmother has also managed to follow her across, and nasty creatures called Delvers are helping him hunt her. Luster is a magical place, and she meets magical, wonderful creatures, especially the unicorn, Lightfoot, and Dimblethum, a hairy creature who looks to be somewhere between a man and a bear. She does it, and finds herself in a magical new world.

It's not long before Cara, wearing her grandmother's special necklace, is standing at the top of a bell tower, about to follow Grandma's instructions to wait for the the twelfth toll of the bell, call out 'Luster, bring me home,' and jump. Cara is surprised and frightened when her grandmother agrees they are really being followed-and that the man is a threat. Cara and her grandmother, whom she has lived with since her mother died and her father left, are on their way home from the library when they realize they are being followed.

Into the land of the unicorns by bruce coville