Silverworld

By Diana Abu-Jaber

A girl enters a magical world to save her grandmother from a dark queen's grasp.

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304 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Sami's grandmother speaks in a mysterious language only she understands. When her family insists on a nursing home, Sami discovers a spellbook and tumbles into Silverworld, a realm of light and shadow. Here, creatures vanish, and Shadow Queen Nixie may hold the key to her grandmother's fate. Sami must navigate this enchanted city, confront the queen, and embrace change to rescue her grandmother and restore balance. Can she unravel the secrets of Silverworld before it's too late?

From the publisher

Fall under the spell of this fantasy-adventure story about a Lebanese-American girl who finds the courage to save her grandmother. Perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Teta, Sami’s Lebanese grandmother, has been ill for a while, slipping from reality and speaking in a language only Sami can understand. Her family thinks Teta belongs in a nursing home, but Sami doesn’t believe she’s sick at all. Desperate to help, Sami casts a spell from her grandmother’s mysertious charm book and falls through an ancient mirror into a world unlike any other. Welcome to Silverworld, an enchanted city where light and dark creatures called Flickers and Shadows strive to live in harmony. But lately Flickers have started going missing, and powerful Shadow soldiers are taking over the land. Everyone in Silverworld suspects that Shadow Queen Nixie is responsible for the chaos, which is bad enough. But could Nixie be holding Sami’s grandmother in her grasp too? To save Teta and Silverworld, Sami must brave adventure, danger, and the toughest challenge of all: change.

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