ASIN: B00E1SVKZG
Publisher: Dorothy Dayton
Pages: 322
12-year-old Maggie is upset about her mother’s marriage to a widower with an obnoxious 12-year-old son, Jeremy. The crowning insult in the situation is that she and the equally hostile Jeremy have to stay at Maggie’s grandma’s (she has to share Gramma?) while their parents are on their extended honeymoon. From the moment grumpy Maggie hears a toad talking to her in the garden, the girl is reluctantly drawn into a conflict in a land she enters through a hitherto nonexistent (or unnoticed?) gate in the woods behind her grandmother’s. In the struggle to free a pitiful imprisoned princess, Maggie finds herself on the side of an innkeeper’s daughter, an unemployed jester with a habit of rhyming and wordplay, an armored knight who constantly falls off his horse, a prince known as Rodno of the Iron Toes, and a surprising wizard named Wordlore. Against them are a nasty queen who drenches ...
