Foulsham: Book Two (The Iremonger Trilogy) - Hardcover

Carey, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1468309544 ISBN 13: 9781468309546

Publisher: Amulet Books, 2015

Synopsis

At the Iremonger family offices in the aptly named borough of Foulsham, London's great repository of filth, Grandfather Umbitt Iremonger has found a way to make objects assume the shapes of people, and how to turn people into objects. Clod, whom he sees as a threat, has been turned into a gold coin and is being passed as currency from hand-to-hand through the town. Meanwhile, Lucy Pennant has been discarded as a clay button, abandoned in the depths of the Heaps. Will they be found and returned to human form? Enter Binadit and Rippit...Meanwhile Umbitt builds an army of animated objects to retrieve the missing gold coin. All around the city, thing―ordinary things―are twitching into life, and the reader is held in breathless suspense as questions of life and death, value and disposability, rumble through this dark and mesmerizing world.

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About the Author

Edward Carey is the author and illustrator of two novels for adults, Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva, which was longlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award. The Iremonger Trilogy is his rst work for young readers. Born in England, he now lives with his wife, Elizabeth McCracken, and their two children in Austin, Texas, where he wrote the Iremonger Trilogy because he missed

Reviews

Gr 6–9—In this sequel to Heap House (Overlook, 2014), the tides of the Heap have turned, and James Henry Hayward, formerly a bath plug, is in possession of Clodius Iremonger, formerly a strange young man, now a half sovereign coin. James Henry does not, at the start, know the significance of the coin he holds, only that he shouldn't lose it. Hunger overtakes him, though, and he sorrowfully spends it on a bun and a pie. Thus, Clod is introduced to life as an object, as he begins to hear the woes of the other coins in the cash drawer. Meanwhile, Lucy Pennant is renewed to her human form in the presence of a bizarre new character called Binadit, a man made of trash who lives in the Heaps. This is the story of Clod and Lucy trying to find their way back to one another, of James Henry Hayward's search for his family, and the revelation of the heartbreaking background of Binadit. Black-and-white illustrations by the author are absolutely unsettling, and are integral to the story. The cliff-hanger ending is even more dramatic than in the first installment. Due to the extremely original, (and yes, very weird) nature of the tale, it's imperative that readers start with the first book to be able to make any sense of this volume. VERDICT Fans of Heap House will be thrilled with this sequel—it shines with heart and creativity.—Mandy Laferriere, Fowler Middle School, Frisco, TX

Edition details

• Publisher: Amulet Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1468309544
• ISBN 13: 9781468309546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336