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The Real Boy

Audiobook

National Book Award Longlist * Bank Street Children's Book Committee Best Book of the Year

"Beautifully written and elegantly structured, this fantasy is as real as it gets."—Franny Billingsley, author of Chime

The Real Boy, Anne Ursu's follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle grade fantasy Breadcrumbs, is a spellbinding tale of the power we all wield, great and small.

On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the village, and spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master's shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite fit in it.

But now that world is changing. Children in the city are falling ill, and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has long been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the forest will keep his island safe. Now even magic may not be enough to save it.


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Publisher: Walden Pond Press Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780062303431
  • File size: 249932 KB
  • Release date: September 24, 2013
  • Duration: 08:40:41

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9780062303431
  • File size: 249970 KB
  • Release date: September 24, 2013
  • Duration: 08:40:38
  • Number of parts: 9

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Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:4.9
Lexile® Measure:730
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:3

National Book Award Longlist * Bank Street Children's Book Committee Best Book of the Year

"Beautifully written and elegantly structured, this fantasy is as real as it gets."—Franny Billingsley, author of Chime

The Real Boy, Anne Ursu's follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle grade fantasy Breadcrumbs, is a spellbinding tale of the power we all wield, great and small.

On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the village, and spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master's shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite fit in it.

But now that world is changing. Children in the city are falling ill, and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has long been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the forest will keep his island safe. Now even magic may not be enough to save it.


Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Walden Pond Press
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780062303431
    File size: 249932 KB
    Release date: September 24, 2013
    Duration: 08:40:41

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780062303431
    File size: 249970 KB
    Release date: September 24, 2013
    Duration: 08:40:38
    Number of parts: 9

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 4.9
    Lexile® Measure: 730
    Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
    Text Difficulty: 3
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