The Glass Town Game

By Catherynne M. Valente, Rebecca Green (Illustrator)

Siblings enter their imaginary world to escape reality, but danger awaits.

3.6/5 Goodreads · 1,482 ratings

535 pages· 110,481 words· Est. 15.5 hour read

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Bookroo's summary

Charlotte and Emily Brontë, facing a grim future at a perilous boarding school, are swept into their own creation—Glass Town. Here, their imagined battles become real, and the stakes are life and death. As they navigate this fantastical realm, they must confront the consequences of their creativity. Can they save their siblings and themselves, or will their own imaginations prove their undoing? In a world where toy soldiers can die and potions promise resurrection, the Brontë siblings must decide if returning to reality is worth the risk.

From the publisher

A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner “Dazzling.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review) Charlotte and Emily Brontë enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this “lovely, fanciful” (Booklist, starred review) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school. But then something incredible happens: a train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own. This is their Glass Town…almost. Their Napoleon never rode into battle on a fire-breathing porcelain rooster. And the soldiers can die; wars are fought over a potion that raises the dead, a potion Anne would very much like to bring back to England. But returning is out of the question–Charlotte will never go back to that horrible school. Together the Brontë siblings must battle their own imaginations in this magical celebration of authorship, creativity, and classic literature from award-winning author Catherynne M. Valente.

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