Dragon Mage: A Sequel to Dragon Magic

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		Dragon Mage: A Sequel to Dragon Magic
		Dragon Mage: A Sequel to Dragon Magic

基本信息·出版社：Tor Books
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2008年01月
·ISBN：0765316595
·International Standard Book Number：0765316595
·条形码：9780765316592
·EAN：9780765316592
·版本：1st
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介 Shy realizes that she is lucky to be taken in by her grandparents after her father dies–but life above an antique store in Slade’s Corners, Wisconsin is not exactly the place a teenage girl wants to be.
 One day while going through boxes of her father’s boyhood stuff, she comes upon a rare old set of dragon puzzles … all of which are missing pieces. Her grandmother recalls the fantastic tales Shy's father would tell about his travels to lands of dragons and adventure. She always thought that these fantasies were inspired by the puzzles Shy has found.
 Shy realizes that by mixing and matching the different sets she can complete a single dragon puzzle that combines all of the others. Upon doing so she is whisked away to ancient Babylon where she must continue the duties of her father’s legacy as a servant to the dragon and a savior of the world.
作者简介 Andre Norton is the grand dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy whose creations include the Witch World and Beastmaster series. She died in 2005.
 Jean Rabe is the author of the Finest trilogy and numerous books for TSR/WOTC.  She lives in Kenosha, WI.
媒体推荐 “A superb storyteller with a narrative pace all her own.”--The New York Times on Andre Norton
 
“The grande dame of science fiction.”--Life magazine on Andre Norton
 
"The author of several novels set in Wizards of the Coast's ‘Forgotten Realms’ setting has created her own world and populated it with vibrant characters both human and animal.”--Library Journal on The Finest Creation by Jean Rabe
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

Based on a concept discussed between Norton and Rabe before Norton's death in 2005, this long-delayed sequel honors the classic elements of Norton's 1972 young adult fantasy Dragon Magic while taking on a decidedly modern air. Shilo's ordinary teenage life has been shaken up by her father's death. Now living with her grandparents in the backwoods of Wisconsin, Shilo rummages in the attic one night and finds a wooden picture puzzle with four dragons on the cover that belonged to her father. When she completes the puzzle, Shilo finds herself transported to ancient Babylon, where a dragon entreats her to help save its eggs and keep the earth from being overrun by demons. Rabe (The Finest Creation) has built on Norton's estimable groundwork to produce an action-packed, satisfying young adult story that will be very accessible to modern teens as well as now-grown fans of the original Magic books. (Jan.)
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From School Library Journal

Grade 6–8—In this sequel to Dragon Magic (Tor, 2006), Shilo's father has died and now she is stuck in Wisconsin with her grandparents. In going through some of her father's childhood toys, she discovers a puzzle with four dragons on it. As she puts it together, a dragon that doesn't appear on the cover of the box is formed. Suddenly Shilo is pulled back through time to ancient Babylon where she must figure out how to survive long enough to return home. Called by the dragon, she learns how she can help to rescue not only the dragon's eggs but also her own world from being overtaken by demons. It will take bravery, friendship, and stealth to succeed. Ancient Babylon is vividly described with small details bringing the world to life. The characterizations are rich and varied as well. This book's concept was created by both Norton and Rabe just before Norton's death in 2005. Readers familiar with the earlier books in the series will enjoy the connections here, but readers new to the series may not be as intrigued.—Tasha Saecker, Menasha Public Library, WI
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文摘 Chapter 1
“I’m in Hades,” Shilo said, staring out her bedroom window, gaze locked on Big Mick’s Pub across the street. Mick, a scrawny, elderly man with a bulbous nose, struggled to put out a large sign advertising tonight’s fish boil.
A wheezing fan teased Shilo’s short red hair, but it did little to cool her. Her bedroom was on the second floor of an antique store. The store was not air-conditioned, nor were any of the rooms on the floor above it—not a single window unit hummed in the entire building. (Initially, she hadn’t expected that to be a problem, as she’d envisioned Wisconsin a cold place . . . but in the heart of July it felt every degree as oppressive as her native Marietta, Georgia.)
No air-conditioning, no ceiling fan, and no swimming pool for . . . well . . . probably a light-year distant. She figured that by noon the heat would be enough to melt the rubber soles off her favorite pair of tennis shoes.
Still, it wasn’t the heat that made her say she was in Hades.
It was her big room with its creaking wooden floor and high tin ceiling painted eggshell white.
It was the antique store.
It was Slade’s Corners.
Maybe it was Wisconsin itself.
Her dad had died one month ago, of a heart attack the death certificate-in-triplicate read—two days after his forty-ninth birthday and two days before her fifteenth. She hadn’t seen her mother in eight years, not since the Tuesday afternoon that the divorce papers were served.
Her mother lived in Portland now, in the company of a bass clarinetist she’d taken up with three Christmases past. She hadn’t bothered to come to the funeral, or to call with a word or two of sympathy. Shilo’s older brother lived in Atlanta and had a job in the Braves’ marketing department, which he’d landed after graduating from college last year.
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