Runcible Jones - The Gate to Nowhere

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Publication Details

ISBN:                       0143301586

Format:                   Paberback

Category:               Childrens Fiction - Young Adults (13 + years)

Publication Date:    09-January-2006

Price:                       $16.95 

Pages:                     456

Format:                    B (B Fmt 198x129 Mm //Ige Crown 8vo)

Series:                     Puffin Storybooks

Imprint:                   Puffin

Publisher:                Penguin Australia

Summary: (Below)

Meet Runcible Jones and Mariam Orpiment Two almost normal children stuck at Grindgrim Academy, the worst school in the country.

Parsifoe and Ulalliall A shambling magician and her arrogant, age-old transportal.

Thandimanilon and Lars Sparj The charmingly wicked Dark Lady and her villainous consort.

Sly, slippery Sleeth and sad-eyed Tigris Two brilliant students of magic, but can either be trusted?

The Cybale An ancient fanatical cult of wizards about to rise again.

Find out what happens when Runcible and Mariam are hurled through a gate to Iltior, to become the children that will change the world's destiny forever.

This is the story of twelve-year-old Runcible Jones. His father died during an explosion while writing a book about magic and his mother is in prison for possessing a book about magic. At school, Runcible befriends Mariam. One day Runcible accidentally transports himself and Mariam to a magical land called Iltior.

Pasrsifoe, an old witch, rescues them but they soon fall into the clutches of the beautiful and cunning Thandimanilon. She runs a school for teaching magic to children.  Unfortunately she also wants to use them as soldiers for an unspecified purpose. When Runcie fails to show any signs of magic power, Thandimanilon ejects him into an inhospitable forest. Here he meets a trouble young magician called Sleeth. With Sleeth’s assistance Runcie rescues Mariam. But can Sleeth be trusted?

Together with a young girl called Tigris, Runcie and Mariam escape only to be pursued by a gallery of wizards and warlocks. Along the way, Sleeth hints that someone in Iltior might have killed Runcie’s father.

Who killed Runcie’s father and why? And is there a reason for Runcie and Mariam to be in Iltior?