The Young Necromancer's Guide to Ghosts
幽霊と話せる少女ルシは、家族を守るために、魔術師やドラゴンの助けを借りながら旅を続ける。児童向けファンタジーとして、恐れや孤独をやわらかく包み込みつつ、成長と責任を前に出す。
作品情報
幽霊が見えることは、ひとりぼっちでいることと同じではない。
Independent Cat から刊行された児童向け長編で、冒険のわかりやすさと、家族を守りたい切実さが両立している。幽霊との対話を軸に、怖さと優しさのバランスを取った作品だ。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Vanessa Ricci-Thode
- 発売日
- 2024-04-30
- ページ数
- 206ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.34 x 1.19 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781738392902
- ISBN-10
- 1738392902
- 価格
- 2639 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Children's Books/Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths/Dragons
Lusi is a perfectly normal 12-year-old wizard except for the part where she can talk to ghosts. But everyone knows ghosts aren't real, so at best they think Lusi is lying and at worst that she's lost her mind. Her big sister Marsi is the only one who believes her, but Marsi is running away to escape Uncle's terrible plan to make her marry his creepy nephew. Lusi can't imagine being separated from her sister and leaves behind the rest of their family to flee with Marsi via merchant caravan to the Wizards Guild for help. All their plans are dashed to pieces when Uncle catches up to them in a matter of days. Uncle's connections to powerful wizards make him far more dangerous than Lusi initially realized. But Lusi isn't crazy or a freak for talking to ghosts: she's a necromancer! Marsi is worried-they've always been told that necromancers are monsters. Lusi needs to learn more to set both their minds at ease. She must enlist the help of a ghost girl, a dragon, and a strange wizard from the other side of the world if she wants to control her unusual talents and keep her family safe.
Vanessa is a Nebula Award nominated fantasy author who loves a good story. She's a Halloween enthusiast and a bookish geek who loves dragons, dogs, astronomy, and travel. If she's not hibernating, she can be found in her butterfly garden, achieving her final form as a forest witch. She lives in Waterloo (no, the other one) with her spouse, daughter and very good dogs.
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This book had me at: "a perfectly normal 12-year-old wizard except for the part where she can talk to ghosts." Oh yeah, got to read that! This is a great fantasy story for young audiences, with an epic setting, dragons, ghosts, a despicable villain, and Lusi, our perfectly normal wizard heroine struggling to understand her innate talent for creepy necromancy. The setting is Ricchi-Thodes' rich Fireborn world, but this is a standalone story. You do not need to read any other Fireborn books to understand (and love) this one. At its heart, it's a tale of self-discovery, belonging, accepting others, celebrating our differences.
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