Arthur Penhaligon suffers from asthma and has been hospitalized many times. During a gym class at a new school, he suffers so badly that two of the students decide to get help and leave him alone. While he is alone, Mister Monday and Sneezer appear out of nowhere and gift Arthur with a clock minut...
Arthur has such terrible asthma that his main ambition in life is just getting a next breath, so when a magical key is pressed into his hand and he becomes imbued with extraordinary powers, he's more than a bit nonplussed. There's little time to ponder, however, and Arthur quickly learns how to use...
This is the first book in a series of seven. Young Arthur Penhaligon is on the verge of dying when he is unwittingly saved and dragged into a powerplay at the center of the Universe. In the highly imaginative world created by Garth Nix a Wonderland-esque House resides at the center of the universe...
An engrossing read from the start, Mister Monday is a fabulous start to this fantastical YA series. Reminiscent of YA literary greatness such as The Harry Potter Series and The Percy Jackson Series, Nix has written an original, fantasy, adventure tale that had this reader enraptured from the start. ...
The first in a series, and like Nix's Seventh Tower books, intended for a younger reader than his Abhorsen trilogy. The Keys to the Kingdom slides even further into pure fantasy, which often is not to my taste. I find fantasy often to be illogical and picaresque, and to rely heavily on deus ex machi...
I like Garth Nix so I picked this up even though I'm not the middle school audience it was written for. It was fun. As I say, it was written for middle school readers, so I blasted through it pretty fast, and its very clearly one installment of a longer series. To me it felt a little more like a ...
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