Author: POOLE, RICHARD (1945- )
Title: Jewel and thorn / Richard Poole
Description: London : Simon & Schuster 2005. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 391 pages; Physical description: 391 p. : ill. map ; 23 cm. Summary: On his sixteenth birthday. Thorn Jack steals a curious crystal from the Treasury of a neighbouring settlement in his coming of age rite-of-passage. Returning home. he finds that his younger sister has been kidnapped. He sets out to find her with Racky Jagger. an enigmatic but wordly-wise individual. Their way leads through Judy Wood. a place of mystery and ill-repute. When fifteen-years-old Jewel Ranson's father. a travelling draper. is murdered at a fair. she sets out to avenge him. Accompanied by Rainy Gill. a juggler. she journeys to Harrypark where she becomes involved in a bloodthirsty wager. As she travels. Jewel discovers that she has been gifted with unusual powers. After many colourful adventures and encounters. their separate quests lead Thorn and Jewel to a momentous meeting - and the discovery of a common enemy. Genre: Fiction -- Fantasy fiction -- Juvenile fiction -- Children's fiction.Weight in Kg appr.:

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