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It is late August 1892, and Sophia Tims is coming home from a foreign Age, having risked her life in search of her missing parents. Now she is aboard ship, with a hard-earned, cryptic map that may help her find them at long last.
But her homecoming is anything but peaceful. Threatening clouds hang over New Orleans harbor. Sinkholes have been opening in Boston, swallowing parts of the city whole. Rogue weirwinds tear up the Baldlands. Worst of all, New Occident is at war, led by a prime minister who will do anything to expand the country westward. He has blackmailed Sophia’s beloved uncle Shadrack into drawing the battle maps that will lead countless men and boys—including Sophia’s best friend, Theo—to their deaths.
As Sophia puzzles out her next move, Shadrack is peeling back layers of government intrigue, and Theo is bracing himself to fight. A red fog of war is rising, and New Occident’s future hangs in the balance. . . .
The Crimson Skew is the thrilling final act of S. E. Grove’s acclaimed Mapmakers Trilogy—three unforgettable books set in a world like no other.
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Release date
July 12, 2016 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780698148383
- File size: 4606 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780698148383
- File size: 6180 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 6.1
- Lexile® Measure: 810
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 3-5
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Reviews
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Starred review from April 15, 2016
The Mapmakers trilogy concludes with Sophia Tims still searching for her missing parents and, while she's at it, trying to prevent a cataclysmic war.When the Great Disruption occurred in 1799, the whole world was fragmented, countries and Ages thrown up against each other like jigsaw-puzzle pieces in disarray. Sophia's parents were lost, and the white girl, her uncle Shadrack Elli, and friend Theo Thackary find themselves allies in a broken world. The machinations of Prime Minister Gordon Broadgirdle have led to an impending war with the Indian Territories, and Sophia and pirate friends Calixta and Burton Morris are traveling north from New Orleans as armies amass in the Territories. Sophia, with her prodigious map-reading abilities, is to play a role in it all, with a cast of friends and allies standing up to the evil of the world. Though the scale is as grand and sweeping as the previous installments', Groves' remarkable worldbuilding is more the backdrop here, as the complex plotting proceeds like a literary chess match. Pirates, sea captains, fortunetellers, a dragon, poisonous red fog, former slave traders, and healers populate a story that may introduce young readers to the old-fashioned pleasure of settling into a long, rich, and complicated tale.A triumphant conclusion to a prodigious feat of storytelling. (Fantasy. 10 & up)COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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