From Kate Milford, the bestselling author of National Book Award
nominee Greenglass House, comes another magical, middle-grade
adventure, The Left-Handed Fate.
Lucy Bluecrowne and Maxwell Ault are on a mission: find the three pieces
of a strange and arcane engine. They're not exactly sure what this
machine does, but they have it on good authority that it will stop the
war that's raging between their home country of England and Napoleon
Bonaparte's France. Despite being followed by mysterious men dressed all
in black, they're well on their way to finding everything they need when
their ship, the famous Left-Handed Fate, is taken by the Americans.
And not just any Americans. The Fate (and with it, Lucy and Max) are
put under the command of Oliver Dexter, who's only just turned twelve.
But Lucy and Max aren't the only ones trying to put the engine together,
and if the pieces fall into the wrong hands, it could prove disastrous.
Oliver is faced with a choice: help Lucy and Max and become a traitor to
his country? Or follow orders and risk endangering that same country and
many others at the same time--not to mention his friends?
"This world has a seductive, fairytale quality--Patrick O'Brian's
Captain Aubrey series as seen through the lens of Hayao Miyazaki. . .
It's impossible not to admire The Left-Handed Fate for its epic scope,
joyful evocation of life on the high seas and suspenseful mystery."
--The New York Times Book Review
