The Dark Lord's Daughter

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Wrede Klappentext When ordinary fourteen-year-old Kayla discovers she is the heir to a dark throne, she must find her place between her life on Earth and her magical inheritance. Leseprobe Chapter 1 So You Are a Potential Dark Lord According to popular belief, the ability to utilize Dark magic can erupt anywhere, at any time, in anyone. In practice, Dark power is nearly always inherited, though sometimes from a remote ancestor. --Introduction to The Dark Traditions The long line moved slowly across the bus parking lot toward the entrance gates of the State Fair. Halfway up the line, fourteen-year-old Kayla Jones scowled absently at a spot where the green glitter nail polish had slopped over the side of her fingernail. She’d been hoping to come to the State Fair with someone besides family this year, but Madison and her other friends had lost touch when Kayla’s family moved to the apartment, and she hadn’t made new ones yet. Besides, the fair had been a Jones family tradition as far back as Kayla could remember, and family traditions had kept them going for the last four years. Mostly small ones, like Saturday-morning pancakes and the weekly visit to the park by Lake Nokomis, but Rikita Jones managed at least one big event every three or four months, no matter how dire their other circumstances. So here they were: Kayla, with her adoptive mother and brother, standing in line at nine in the morning. “You could at least have let us sleep late,” she muttered at Riki’s back. “What?” Riki started to turn, then paused. “No, Del, we’re not stopping at the cookie barn first thing. It’s too early, and you’re wired enough without adding sugar.” “Can I get a turkey leg, then?” Del begged. “Or the roast corn? Those are healthy. Or no, I want the deep-fried alligator on a stick!” “You just had breakfast!” Riki said in tones of despair. “How can you want more food already?” “You only want the alligator because you think it sounds neat,” Kayla told her younger brother. Del gave her a wide-eyed look and bounced on the heels of his running shoes with ten-year-old energy. “So? That’s why they bring it up here to sell, isn’t it? There aren’t any alligators in Minnesota. Can I have some, Mom?” “Maybe later.” Riki adjusted her sunglasses and tipped her maroon-and-gold baseball cap a little higher on her thick black curls. “Kayla honey, are you sure you don’t want a hat? I brought extras.” She raised her bulging canvas tote bag. Kayla squinted at the sky. The hazy, cloudless blue of late August promised the fair’s traditional hot and humid weather, but in a moment of insanity two weeks before, she’d had Riki cut her dark hair mercilessly short, and wearing a baseball cap over it made her look like a boy. More like a boy. “Maybe later,” she echoed. The line inched forward; Kayla shifted her backpack and closed the gap. Delmar bounced on his heels again and asked, “Can we start on the Midway? I want to do the frog toss.” “No!” Kayla said before their mother could answer. Standing around watching Del toss frog-shaped beanbags at plastic lily pads in an attempt to win one of the stuffed animals had been boring enough last year, when it was a new game. Riki frowned. “Kayla!” “Fine, but if he wins another giant stuffed penguin, I’m not carrying it around all day!” Riki’s expression went thoughtful. “Good point. Maybe on our way out, Del.” “Awww.” “Quit whining. What are you, five?” Kayla said. Del subsided--for the moment--and they moved forward again. They had almost reached the security screening, and Riki was fishing in her canvas tote for the advance tickets. “Do you think Dad would have come with us?” Del asked. “To the fair, I mean.” “Del!” Kayla shot a quick glance at their mother’s back, b...

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• Autori: Patricia C Wrede, Patricia C. Wrede
• Editore: Random House Childrens Books US
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 8 a 12 anni
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.09.2023
• EAN: 9780553536218
• ISBN: 978-0-553-53621-8
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 216 mm x 29 mm
• Serie: The Dark Lord's Daughter
• Categoria: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi