Skilled at fantasy, Barker throws plenty of thrills and chills at readers. The opening scene and the thrust of the novel gradually connect, as Candy begins an adventure to a mysterious archipelago called Abarat. One day, humiliated by her teacher, Candy skips out of school and heads for the prairie, where she stumbles on a derelict lighthouse and a creature with eight heads, John Mischief. from the shelter of the islands." The action then shifts to Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minn., who hates her life as the daughter of an alcoholic father and a depressed mother. The novel begins with a rather cryptic scene of three women on a "perilous voyage. Like The Thief of Always, Barker's first book for children, this tale finds a bored protagonist venturing into a fantastical world.
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