The Celestial Globe
After stealing her father’s eyes back from Prince Rodolfo, Petra Kronos lives in constant danger. She and her tin spider, Astrophil, end up hiding out in London, where she learns more about her magical abilities. London has its charms (like Petra’s attractive fencing master), but Petra needs to get back to Bohemia and her father.
Meanwhile, Prince Rodolfo is trying to locate a powerful object called the Celestial Globe. Petra’s friends, Tomik and Neel, are searching for her and traveling with a band of pirates searching for the globe.
The race is on to see who will find the globe first, and who will make it out of this deadly chase alive.
About the Kronos Chronicles Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Cabinet of Wonders(2008)
- 2.The Celestial Globe(2009)
- 3.The Jewel of the Kalderash(2011)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
Twelve-year-old Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life filled with some extraordinary things: a pet tin spider who hides in her hair and offers her advice; a best friend who can trap lightning inside a glass sphere; a father who can move metal with his mind...
But Petra's happy life is disrupted when her father, who was commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world’s finest astronomical clock, returns home blind. The prince has stolen his eyes, enchanted them, and now wears them. Petra is determined to steal her father’s eyes back, but as she embarks on her quest she finds many people at the castle are not what they seem, and that her father’s clock has powers capable of destroying their world.