
Written by Tom Sniegoski · Illustrated by Jeff Smith
Part of the Bone: Quest for the Spark series
A young farmer must stop a darkness threatening eternal nightmares.
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Tom Elm, a young farmer, discovers his village trapped in endless sleep. With a band of unlikely heroes, he must protect the Spark from the encroaching Nacht. As nightmares threaten to consume the Waking World, Tom faces the sinister Constable. Can he save his family and awaken the world, or will darkness prevail?
A return to the enthralling world of BONE with book one in this gripping spin-off novel trilogy, illustrated in four-color!Twelve-year-old Tom Elm is just an ordinary turnip farmer from the Valley, but he’s always felt destined for something bigger. So when he discovers everyone in his village is asleep and plagued by nightmares, he assembles a band of unlikely heroes. They must fight to preserve the Spark–a divine light born at the core of a vast, dark nothingness called the Nacht. The Nacht is trying to permeate the Waking World with nightmares of the Dreaming, and it’s Tom’s mission to defeat the Nacht and its most loyal follower, the Constable. If he fails, his family–and everyone–might never wake up again.
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