Stones of Abraxas (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Stones of Abraxas Sunday, August 9 2009.

• Grade 5-8–Amanda Stanhope is an average eighth grader living an average life in a suburb near Chicago; her brother David, a sixth grader, is pretty much the same. So it's a surprise when, cleaning out the attic, they find a ruby that launches them into Abraxas, a medieval-style fantasy world full of knights, elves, and dragons under attack from a nasty magician called Adrian the Deceiver. What makes this novel different from most other fantasies targeted at this age group is that their parents travel with the children to battle Adrian and his gnome and troll minions. Unfortunately, there's nothing else about this fantasy that's innovative or interesting; the plot is leaden, and the dialogue and characterizations are hard to swallow. There is no feeling of otherness, and very little magic, in the air of Abraxas. –Walter Minkel, New York Public Library Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.