'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. A neighboring king has stolen the queen’s lake and is holding it for ransom, and it’s up to Dido and the crew to face fire, flood, execution, and wild beasts to get the lake back - or else. On her way back to London aboard the British man-of-war Thrush, twelve-year-old Dido Twite finds herself and the crew summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria.

The fate of an 11-year-old girl depends on the whimsy of a pink whale. A dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, THE STOLEN LAKE is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court dressmakers, an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, and an infernal country with a noticeable lack of female children. Nightbirds on Nantucket Mass Market Paperback Apby Joan Aiken (Author) 48 ratings Book 3 of 11: Wolves Chronicles Kindle 5.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 18.52 7 Used from 18.51 1 New from 58.52 Paperback 6.56 8 Used from 4.85 1 Collectible from 19.00 Mass Market Paperback 9.76 5 Used from 5.78 2 Collectible from 5. 'A Yearling book.' Nine-year-old Dido befriends Dutiful Penitence, daughter of a nineteenth-century whaling-ship captain, and ends up on Nantucket amid villains intent on killing England's apocryphal James III. Now back in print, THE CUCKOO TREE and THE STOLEN LAKE continue the Wolves Chronicles, the exhilarating and imaginative series that stemmed from Joan Aiken’s classic THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE. When a nuclear bomb is set to go off, Podkayne must rescue a fairy (alien) baby from Venus.

Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA and NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET will welcome her return in her wildest adventure yet. Podkayne, a teenager who grew up on Mars, and her brilliant little brother, Clark, are traveling to Earth when they’re kidnapped by terrorists.

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