The Last of the High Kings (New Policeman Trilogy, 2) - Softcover

Thompson, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061175978 ISBN 13: 9780061175978

Publisher: Greenwillow Books, 2010

Synopsis

"Hello," said Alice, trying her best to sound friendly.

"What are you doing up here?" "I'm talking to the ghost," said Jenny.

Jenny has been making some strange friends lately. She's been walking barefoot through the wilds, talking to a huge white goat that wanders the Irish countryside. She's been chatting with the ghost of a young boy that guards the stone beacon at the top of the mountain. Her father, J.J. Liddy, knows these beings are connected somehow to the forces that are gathering around his homeland, plotting to destroy mankind. But will he be able to unravel the puzzles in time? Will he be able to secure the future of the last of the high kings? And is J.J. guarding some dark secrets of his own?

About this title

About the Author:

Kate Thompson lives on the west coast of Ireland, which provides inspiration for the Irish magic, music, and landscape in the award-winning The New Policeman and The Last of the High Kings.

From Booklist:

Thompson follows her international bestseller, The New Policeman (2007), with this sequel, also set in a contemporary Irish countryside simmering with magic. J. J. Liddy, 15 in Policeman, is now grown, married, and the father of four. His daughter, Jenny, claims to keep company with ghosts and a magical goat, and Thompson gradually reveals the source of her odd behavior: she’s a fairy changeling whom J. J. and his wife swapped with their own baby in a complicated arrangement. A convoluted, shaky scheme to return Jenny to the fairy world raises a number of troubling questions about familial love and loyalty that distract from what seems to be the story’s central focus: an ancient, epic battle between supernatural forces. Particularly far-fetched is the part of J. J.’s teenage sister, Hazel, who agrees to publicly fake a pregnancy as part of the ruse. But as in Policeman, Thompson will captivate readers with her depiction of the suspenseful battle between unseen, ageless forces and with her character Jenny, who has the power to rescue or destroy worlds that grown-ups have ravaged. Grades 7-10. --Gillian Engberg

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061175978
• ISBN 13: 9780061175978
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336