A Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner
"Dazzling." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Charlotte and Emily Brontë enter a fantasy world that they invented in
order to rescue their siblings in this "lovely, fanciful" (Booklist,
starred review) novel from the New York Times bestselling author of
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne
Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers
fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four
escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to
a dangerous boarding school. But then something incredible happens: a
train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade
the moors for a wonderland all their own.
This is their Glass Town...almost. Their Napoleon never rode into
battle on a fire-breathing porcelain rooster. And the soldiers can die;
wars are fought over a potion that raises the dead, a potion Anne would
very much like to bring back to England. But returning is out of the
question--Charlotte will never go back to that horrible school.
Together the Brontë siblings must battle their own imaginations in this
magical celebration of authorship, creativity, and classic literature
from award-winning author Catherynne M. Valente.