Jabberwocky (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Tjaden: A dedicated farmboy that grew up in Shey's Orchird and works alongside his father tending citrus trees. He loves Elora and has the ambition to become an Elite soldier in the Maravilla military.
• Ollie: A witty friend of Tjaden's that also lives in Shey's Orchird. He is a foster boy and rotates between three different homes, spending two days in each and choosing which to stay at the seventh day. He is bold and witty, although is'nt known for making commitments.
• Elora: The daughter of a mirror maker, Elora also lives in Shey's Orchird. She is smart and brave and loves Tjaden.
• Captain Darieus: Captain of the Elites, he is the second-in-command in Maravilla and is idolized by many for his bravery.
• Mikel: Tjaden's reserved, supportive, and hardworking father.
• Lira: Tjaden's mother
• Brune: The local bully of Shey's Orchird that is known for trying to prove he is tough by picking on those that are smaller than he is. Ollie is a main target of his.
• Aker: Elora's father
• Lily: Elora's young sister
• Methos: The physician of Shey's Orchird
• Tellif: An innkeeper in Shey's Orchird who serves as referee to the Swap and Spar competition
• Buck and Ablon: The two obnoxious boys that nearly always accompany Brune
• Stefen: The brawny boy that Tjaden must fight in the Swap and Spar
• Legate: Somone who tours to different Swap and Spar festivals every two years to find recruits for the Acadamy.
• Rodin: A recruit for the Acadamy from Peridia that is arrogant and often brags about his accomplishments.
• The Jabberwocky: A beast thought to be cruel and fearsome throughout Maravilla, that often abducts maidens in the kingdom.
• Chism: The rigid and subdued eleven-year-old, Fellow at the Acadamy. Chism id very precise and pdisiplined in all he does.
• Brin-Dar: A friendly new recruit at the Acadamy
• Markin: Add a description of this character.
• Barash
• Spar

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• “A soldier's first opponet is himself. If he can master himself, he cannot be defeated.”

  Tjaden

• “Perssistant parctice produces proficent prowness.”

  Ollie

• “Start with self-mastery. Swordplay second.”

  Tjaden

• “I don't want you to give me your name. I've a perfectly good one, after all.”

  The Cheshire Cat

• “We make the choises. We just don't make the consiquenses.”

  The Chesire Cat

• “It matters much less where you are than which direction you are going.”

  Cheshire Cat

• ““Are you…a cat?”“Heavens, no. I am a Cheshire Cat.”“A Cheshire Cat is still a cat.”“And a sea horse is a horse. A prairie dog is a dog. And a woman is a man.””

  Cheshire Cat

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• “We all make choices,” said the Cheshire Cat. “We just don’t make consequences.”

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• “’A soldier’s first opponent is himself,” Tjaden quoted. “If he can master himself he cannot be defeated.”

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• `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

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• Toves were spindly and spirally from muzzle to tail. Their faces resembled badgers, but with a long, pinched proboscis of a nose. They didn’t have hair—their skin was similar to that of a smooth, brown lizard, and they had the stubby legs to match. A coiled tail protruded from their posterior which they used for boring into the ground. They gyred their entire body in successive circles as they sank their corkscrew tails into the soil.

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• “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

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• He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood a while in thought.

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• 'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.

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• Shey's Orchird: The small country village in the kingdom of Maravilla where Tjaden, Ollie, Elora, and their families live. It is mainly agricultural (thus "orchird") but also thrives off of other means ,such as soapmaking and mirror making.
• Palassiren: The capitol of the kingdom of Maravilla. It is a large city where the Acadamy for Elite soldiers is located as well as the palace.
• Maravilla: The kingdom of united villages where Tjaden, Ollie, and Elora live.
• Telavir: A large shipping city on the coast far to the southwest of Maravilla.
• Peridia: Another viallage in Maravilla where Rodin lives.
• The Acadamy: Where Elite soldier recruits and their Fellows are trained in Palassiren.
• Dehva: Another village in Maravilla where two girls were abducted by the Jabberwocky.
• The wabe: A meeting or celebration place in every village that contains a sundial. It is where the Swap and Spar take place every year.
• Oblahar: The country viallage in Maravilla where Captain Dareous grew up.
• Wonderland

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• Bandersnatch: A swift moving creature with snapping jaws
• Beamish: Radiantly happy
• Borogrove: A thin, shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all around. Looks something like a mop
• Brillig: Four o' clock in the afternoon. The time when you begin broiling things for dinner.
• Burble: A mixture between a bleat, murmer, and warble
• Chortle: The combination between a chuckle and a snort
• Eleventeen: Between the ages of ten and thirteen
• Frabjous: Fair, fabulous, and joyous
• Frumious: The combination between furious and fuming. Frequently used to describe a bandersnatch that has lost its temper
• Galumph: An awkward gallop
• Gimble: To make holes as with a gimlet
• Gimlet: A hand tool used to drill small holes
• Gyre: To go round and round like a gyroscope
• Jubjub Bird: A desperate bird that lives in perpetual passion
• Manxome: More than fearsome
• Mimsy: Miserable and flimsy
• Mome: Short for "far from home" as someone who has lost their way
• Outgrabe: Something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle
• Rath: A short, green pig
• Slithey: Slimy and lithe
• Spryhe: Spry and sharp like a scythe
• Tove: An animal resembling a badger, a lizard, and a corkscrew that prefers to make its nest under sundials
• Tulgey: Thick, dark, and entwined
• Tweedle: A simpleton; imbecile
• Uffish: A state of mind when the voice is gruffish, the manner is roughish, and the temper is huffish
• Wabe: The grass plot around a sundial. It is called "wabe" because it goes on a long way before it, a long way behind it, and a long way behind it on each way
• Borogove: A thin, shabby-looking bird with its feather sticking out all around. Looks something like a live mop

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1. Daniel Coleman (Author)

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Written for young adults, but can be enjoyed on varying levels by middle grade readers as well as adults.

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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