Bad Unicorn (1) (The Bad Unicorn Trilogy) - Hardcover

Clark, Platte F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1442450126 ISBN 13: 9781442450127

Publisher: Aladdin, 2013

Synopsis

In this start to a hilarious middle-grade fantasy trilogy, Max Spencer discovers that a killer unicorn is hunting him.

It wasn't Max Spencer's idea to fight robots, lead an army, or save the world—it just so happens that he's the only living person who can read the most fantastical book ever written: The Codex of Infinite Knowability. The Codex is no ordinary book, and among other things, it describes a unicorn named Princess the Destroyer.

Princess the Destroyer is no ordinary unicorn. She loves nothing more than hunting down, killing, and eating other creatures. After all, what's the point of having a sharp horn on your forehead if you don't use it for destructive purposes? And right now Princess has a very definite purpose: Find Max and retrieve the lost Codex for an evil sorcerer and his mysterious master. If she can do that, she's been promised an all-the-humans-you-can-eat buffet in Texas.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Max Spencer is the only person who can read the most magical book ever written: The Codex of Infinite Knowability. But the Codex isn't the easiest book to work with. First, the copyright warning reads that violators will be lashed to the Tree of Woe and licked by fire kittens. Second, it seems obsessed with the world-ending threat of squirrels. And third, it is keenly aware that a unicorn named Princess would like nothing more than to turn Max into a human shish kebab. . . .

Princess the Destroyer is one bad unicorn. She gets to turn her love of hunting and eating toward Max. her mission: find the boy and retrieve the lost Codex for an evil sorcerer and his mysterious master. If she can do that, she's been promised an all-the-humans-you-can-eat buffet in Texas.
Stuck in time with a carnivorous unicorn on this trail, Max must find the courage to save himself, his friends, and the entire human race. . . .
This is the first installment in a hilarious new trilogy -- be sure to read it before the zombie duck comes looking for you!

From the Back Cover:

This book contains the fifteen Prime Spells -- the very foundation for all magic. Just drawing close to them is so dangerous that my lawyers require me to tell you that at any moment you may be electrified, frozen, torn asunder, flung into the air, incinerated, or cast across time and space. I recommend you close the book now and run away. . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Aladdin
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1442450126
• ISBN 13: 9781442450127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432