The Silver Arrow - Lev Grossman

Lev Grossman

Category: Adventure

Tags: Adventure, Children, Fantasy

Publisher: Hachette Book Group Release date: September 1, 2020 Duration: 03:51:40, Dear Uncle Herbert, Youve never met me, but Im your niece Kate, and since it is my birthday tomorrow and you are super-rich could you please send me a present?, Kate and her younger brother Tom lead dull, uninteresting lives. And if their dull, uninteresting parents are anything to go by, they dont have much to look forward to. Why cant Kate have thrilling adventures and save the world the way people do in books? Even her 11th birthday is shaping up to be mundane that is, until her mysterious and highly irresponsible Uncle Herbert, whom shes never even met before, surprises her with the most unexpected, exhilarating, inappropriate birthday present of all time: a colossal steam locomotive called the Silver Arrow., Kate and Toms parents want to send it right back where it came from. But Kate and Tom have other ideas and so does the Silver Arrow and soon theyre off to distant lands along magical rail lin