Prefaced by an outline of volume one, this can stand alone, but readers who finish both will feel that they have been part of a grand and special adventure. Elegantly crafted writing in an 18th-century voice, sensitive portrayals of primary and secondary characters and a fascinating author’s note make this one of the few volumes to fully comprehend the paradoxes of the struggle for liberty in America.

In so doing, Octavian receives a first-hand education quite different from his classical training and offers readers an African-American perspective neglected in most sources on the period. He not only fights the rebels but records the stories of his fellow Africans and escaped slaves so their names and stories will not be lost.

and a comic disparity that suggests the ultimate victor in a war is perhaps not who won the battles, but who gets to write the history.In the sequel to The Pox Party (2006), Octavian Nothing escapes the College of Lucidity and flees to British-controlled Boston, where he will swear fealty “to whoever offers emancipation with the greatest celerity.” When Lord Dunmore offers manumission to slaves joining the British counterrevolutionary forces, Octavian joins the Royal Ethiopian Regiment off the coast of Virginia. Anderson and Newbery Honoree Eugene Yelchin, this tale is rife with thrilling action and visual humor. A hilarious and biting social commentary that could only come from the likes of National Book Award winner M. Witty mixed media illustrations show Brangwain’s furtive missives back to the elf kingdom, while Werfel’s determinedly unbiased narrative tells an entirely different story. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double crosses, blunders, and cultural misunderstandings throws these two bumbling scholars into the middle of an international crisis that may spell death for them - and war for their nations. Brangwain’s host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom - from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin pair up for an anarchic, outlandish, and deeply political saga of warring elf and goblin kingdoms. Subverting convention, award-winning creators M.

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