The Real Boy
The Real Boy

The Real Boy

Written by Anne Ursu & illustrated by Erin McGuire
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8 - 12
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341
Page count
730L
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Feb 3, 2015
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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 ChimeThe 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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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780062015082
    Publication Date
    February 3, 2015
    Publisher
    Walden Pond Press
    Original Publication Date
    September 24, 2013
    Page Count
    341
    Audience
    Middle Grade
    Reading Age
    8 - 12 years
    Lexile® Level
    730L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~Q
    ATOS® Book Level
    4.9
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    10
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    161076
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    MG

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