The Shadow Thief
Author: Alexandra Adornetto
Book 1 in the Strangest Adventures series
Pages: 288
Published: 2007
Age: 10+
Drabville is a model town, where Milli Klompet lives with her slightly offbeat family and spends her time longing for adventure.
Then one day, along with her cautious best friend and amateur geologist, Ernest Perriclof, Milli discovers 'Hog House'. But the afternoon's entertainment takes a different turn when they are held prisoner by the wacky Mr and Mrs Mayor and a cohort of evil magicians, led by the sinister Aldor.
Aldor is eagerly anticipating the Great Guzzle - a horrifying ceremony during which he plans to swallow the shadows of every citizen in Drabville, absorbing their skills and talents and rendering himself invincible.
Milli and Ernest must evade the Shadow Keepers and outwit the sinister Aldor before the shadows are swallowed and Drabville loses its soul forever.
About the Strangest Adventures Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Shadow Thief(2007)
- 2.The Lampo Circus(2007)
- 3.Von Gobstopper's Arcade(2009)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
The Strangest Adventures is a trilogy of books centered on the model town of Drabville, and the strange misfortunes that befall its inhabitants at the hands of the evil and dastardly, Lord Aldor.
Millipop Klompet and Ernest Perriclof live in the uneventful town of Drabville, where the cautious Ernest spends his time enlarging his rock collection and Milli dreams of adventure. It is their curiosity and ingenuity, however, that must derail Lord Aldor's various unusual plots to gain power and control the citizens.
The tales are inventive and highly imaginative, told in an entertaining style reminiscent of Lemony Snicket.