Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods

Synopsis

&“I loved every speck of it.&” —Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal–winning author of The Girl Who Drank the MoonFrom New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente comes an inventive middle grade fantasy that follows a boy journeying away from the only home he&’s ever known and into the magical realm of the dead to fulfill a bargain for his people.Osmo Unknown hungers for the world beyond his small town. With the life that Littlebridge society has planned for him, the only taste Osmo will ever get are his visits to the edge of the Fourpenny Woods where his mother hunts. Until the unthinkable happens: his mother accidentally kills a Quidnunk, a fearsome and intelligent creature that lives deep in the forest.None of this should have anything to do with poor Osmo, except that a strange treaty was once formed between the Quidnunx and the people of Littlebridge to ensure that neither group would harm the other. Now that a Quidnunk is dead, as the firstborn child of the hunter who killed her, Osmo must embark on a quest to find the Eightpenny Woods—the mysterious kingdom where all wild forest creatures go when they die—and make amends.Accompanied by a very rude half-badger, half-wombat named Bonk and an antisocial pangolin girl called Never, it will take all of Osmo&’s bravery and cleverness to survive the magic of the Eightpenny Woods to save his town…and make it out alive.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

416 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781481477017

Related ISBNs:

9781481477000

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Date of Addition:

02/28/24

Copyrighted By:

Catherynne M. Valente

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Children's Books, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Science Fiction and Fantasy

Grade Levels:

Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade

Reading Age:

8–12

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.