The Black Room - Hardcover

Cross, Gillian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192719742 ISBN 13: 9780192719744

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Robert is determined to rescue Lorn, who remains trapped in the tiny underground world from which he has managed to escape. She'll die if he doesn't help her.
But Lorn doesn't know what danger she is in. Something is drawing her to the dark tunnels underneath her world.
Is it something that is calling her home or something more sinister? Can Robert get to her before whatever lurks in the black room does?

* Gillian Cross is one of the UK's top children's authors, and has won a host of major prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and the Smarties Prize.

About this title

About the Author:

Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Wolf
Winner of the Whitbread Award for The Great Elephant Chase
Winner of the Smarties Prize for The Great Elephant Chase
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Tightrope

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-8-A sequel to The Dark Ground (Dutton, 2004). Sheltered in an underground cavern, Lorn and her band of miniaturized humans struggle to survive in a cold, dangerous, and hostile world. Above their heads, Tom, a normal-sized human boy, walks his dog in a park near his home, observes Rob, and ponders his old friend's recent personality changes. As chapters shift between the small, vulnerable people and the young adults interacting above them, Tom learns that Rob had consciously entered a tiny double of himself, and that Lorn and her friends came to his rescue in a landscape made alien by Rob's relative size in The Dark Ground (Dutton, 2004). Back to his normal size, he is trying to help Lorn and her friends as best he can. Tom's chance encounter with a mentally retarded boy leads Rob and Tom to an underground black room, where the boy's horribly abused sister, Hope-clearly Lorn's double-is imprisoned. Shifting perspectives, cliff-hanger chapter endings, and fast-paced action paired with believable, sympathetic characters make this a compelling read. Hope's father is a terrifying antagonist, relentlessly pursuing the boys who seek to return his daughter to her rightful mind. Their quest is fulfilled in an unexpected way, but the rules governing the trilogy's fantasy elements are left unexplained. A mysterious blue-eyed man seems to be involved. This fantasy thriller amply satisfies readers' appetites, all the while arousing their hunger for the final volume.-Margaret A. Chang, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams
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About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0192719742
• ISBN 13: 9780192719744
• Binding: Hardcover