Inkdeath / Cornelia Funke ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell.

Funke, Cornelia, 1958- (author.). Bell, Anthea, (translator.).

Summary:

As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.

Record details

ISBN: 9780439866293
ISBN: 0439866294
ISBN: 9780439866286
ISBN: 0439866286
ISBN: 9780606146876
ISBN: 0606146873
Physical Description: 683 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Chicken House/Scholastic Inc., 2008.
Copyright: ©2007

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Cover, map, and chapter-head illustrations ... by Carol Lawson"--Copyright page.

Sequel to Inkspell.

Formatted Contents Note:

Nothing but a dog and a sheet of paper -- Only a village -- Written silver -- Ink-clothes -- Fenoglio feels sorry for himself -- Sad Ombra -- Adangerous visit -- Roxane's pain -- A giveaway -- As if nothing had happened -- Sick with longing -- Back in the service of Orpheus -- A knife through the heart -- News from Ombra -- Loud words, soft words -- the piper's offer -- The wrong fear -- A dangerous ally -- Soldiers' hands -- A sleepless night -- Sharp words -- Taking the bait -- The graveyard of the strolling players -- To blame -- The end and the beginning -- A familiar voice -- Lost and back again -- A new song -- A visitor to Orpheus's cellar -- Sootbird's fire -- The Bluejay's answer -- At last -- Herbs for Her Ugliness -- Burnt words -- The next verse -- A surprising visitor -- Only a magpie -- A greeting to the piper -- Stolen children -- A new cage -- Pictures from the ashes -- An audience with the Adderhead -- Four berries -- The hand of death -- Written and unwritten -- The castle in the lake -- The role of women -- Waiting.

Masters new and old -- Lazy old man -- The wrong helpers -- The dead men in the forest -- Human nests -- The white whispering -- The wrong time -- Fire and darkness -- Too late? -- Help from mountains far away -- the Bluejay's angels -- Mother and son -- clothed and unclothed -- Black -- Ah, Fenoglio! -- Light -- Made visible -- Love disguised as hate -- The other name -- Back -- The Adderhead's bedchamber -- Burning words -- The bookbinder -- So many tears -- The night-mare -- The other side -- the book -- White night -- Over -- Staked on the wrong card -- Leaving -- Ombra -- Later -- An A-Z of the Inkworld -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.