Scythe, the first book in his latest series, Arc of a Scythe, is a Michael L. Neal Shusterman is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty award-winning books for children, teens, and adults, including the Unwind dystology, the Skinjacker trilogy, Downsiders, and Challenger Deep, which won the National Book Award. In this gripping trilogy, Neal Shusterman explores questions of life, death, and what just might lie in between. At stake is nothing less than the fate of Everlost and the living world they have left behind. Nick and Allie have to learn to survive in a world with different rules, and figure out who they can trust-and who they must oppose at all costs. It’s a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth.Īllie and Nick don’t survive the car crash, and end up in Everlost, where coins are more valuable than anyone knows, fortune cookies tell the truth, monsters are real, and the queen of lost souls lives in a once-beloved tower. Some are caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. Not every child who dies goes on to the afterlife. Stared (*) locations have known inhabitants.From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Arc of a Scythe trilogy and Challenger Deep, the compulsively readable Skinjacker trilogy is now available in a collectible boxed set. Meet Felicity and Flick: Eventful AdventureĪccording to the Babbling Brook, the Heart of the World Wood Web, can be found under the ground, they have to find it and restart spring before sundown, or else, Everwilde and everyone in it will cease to exist. Meet the Enchantimals: Enchanted Everwilde One of the mountains is known as Mellow Mountain. As well, there's at least one farm located in the north-Western grassland and what appears to be a palace in the north-Eastern jungle. The Wonderwood houses Wonderwood Village, home to many enchantimals. Meet the Enchantimals: Enchanted Everwilde East of jungle are the mountains and again East of that is grassland that connects to the aforementioned desert to the south. Any brooks here and in the savannah that reach out to the bay do so by means of a waterfall. West of the arctic island, across the bay, is a savannah, this one featuring mesas at the higher grounds up in the north. The ocean is south of this and is home to a few tropical islands. Across from the bay that borders it on the West is an island which harbours a cold climate. To the south thereof lies another deciduous forest, which main feature is a volcano. To the East of it is a desert region with mesas. The Wonderwood is a deciduous forest through which the omnipresent brook flows out into a bay that flows out into the ocean. The biomes are connected through a brook that reaches far into every biome.įor the purpose of describing the landscape, assume that the Wonderwood is the center of Everwilde. It consists of a patchwork of biomes, most of which inhabited. Everwilde is the realm where the enchantimals dwell and which they are tasked to protect.
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