A trio of very different children meet and decide to break into an old castle and camp out there. These three teenagers don't really fit in with other kids and find themselves enjoying the feeling of togetherness. When Marcus returns the next day with bruises and blames his father they have to do ...
A delightful and well-delivered young adult novel from the author of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Last Siege plays with the conventions of fantasy while lightly skirting the genre. Stroud's characters are believable, which is important to the reader's experience, since they are not always credible. I...