It’s been two years since Peter Nimble and Sir Tode rescued the kingdom of HazelPort. In that time, they have travelled far and wide in search of adventure.
Now Peter and Sir Tode have been summoned by Professor Cake for a new mission: find a 12-year-old bookmender named Sophie Quire. Sophie knows little beyond the four walls of her father’s bookshop, where she repairs old books and dreams of escaping the confines of her dull life.
But when a strange boy and his talking cat/horse companion show up with a rare and mysterious book, she finds herself pulled into an adventure beyond anything she has ever read…
Titles in Vanished Kingdom Series:
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
The War of the Maps
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Jonathan Auxier’s first novel, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, was a Manitoba Young Readers’ Choice Award Honour Book. His second book, The Night Gardener, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and several others, while his most recent novel, Sweep, won the 2018 Governor General’s Award and the Sydney Taylor Book Award.Auxier grew up near Vancouver and now lives in Pittsburgh with his family.