Rye goes questing, not because he has a high destiny, but because he loves and misses his family. Really dead? Can the skimmers be stopped? And would anyone really want the promised reward: the Warden of Weld’s spoiled daughter? Rodda avoids two-dimensional stereotypes entirely: while the brothers’ roles are traditional, each is appealingly human. She currently lives in Sydney, Australia. Winner of the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year Award (Younger Readers) a record five times, she seems to know instinctively what children want to read. After a foolishĮrror by Rye impoverishes the family, he sneaks away to volunteer, facing the choice of the three magical doors and the challenges beyond. Emily Rodda is the author of the hugely successful Deltora Quest series and has more than eight million of her books in print. Sixteen-year-old Rye’s older brothers, Dirk and Sholto, volunteer and vanish, presumed dead. The autocratic government calls for volunteers to find and destroy the source of the scourge, revealing that there is, after all, a way out of the city. Man-eating “skimmers” fly over the city on warm summer nights, swarming wherever there is light or sound. The enclave of Weld, surrounded by a wall with no opening, is under attack from above. Mining folktale tropes, veteran Australian author Rodda (the Deltora Quest series) opens her Three Doors trilogy with promising urgency and a twist of historical consciousness.
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