{"product_id":"reckless-ii-living-shadows-isbn-9781782691259","title":"Reckless II: Living Shadows","description":"\u003cb\u003eJacob Reckless's shadowy adventures continue in the second volume of Cornelia Funke's spellbinding Reckless series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacob has saved his brother from the Mirrorworld, but now he will pay a terrible price. A fairy's curse is burning in his heart, and to break the spell he must embark upon a perilous journey - with his trusty friend Fox by his side - to seek out the only treasure that could save him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacob's search for the golden crossbow will lead him across hundreds of miles by land and sea, to an invisible, enchanted palace within the Dead City. It will bring him face to face with vicious beasts, bloodthirsty giants, and a deadly stone­faced rival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt will test his courage like never before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e is the second book in the thrilling \u003ci\u003eReckless\u003c\/i\u003e series.Cornelia Funke is the highly acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author of the \u003ci\u003eInkheart\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, \u003ci\u003eDragon Rider\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Thief Lord\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous other children's novels and picture books. Born in 1958 in the German town of Dorsten, she worked as a social worker for a few years before turning first to illustration and then to writing. Her books have now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 37 languages.1\u003cbr\u003e Waiting\u003cbr\u003e He still wasn’t back.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e‘I won’t stay long.\u003c\/i\u003e’ Fox wiped the rain off her face. With\u003cbr\u003e Jacob, this could mean anything. Sometimes he stayed for\u003cbr\u003e weeks. Sometimes months.\u003cbr\u003e The ruin lay deserted as usual, and the silence between\u003cbr\u003e the scorched walls made her shiver nearly as much as the\u003cbr\u003e rain. The human skin warmed so much less, yet Fox now\u003cbr\u003e shifted into the vixen ever more rarely. All too clearly she\u003cbr\u003e had begun to feel how the fur stole the years from her—even\u003cbr\u003e without Jacob reminding her.\u003cbr\u003e He’d held her so close before he left, as if he wanted\u003cbr\u003e to take her warmth with him into the world where he was\u003cbr\u003e born. Something frightened him, though he didn’t admit\u003cbr\u003e it, of course. He was still like a boy who thought he could\u003cbr\u003e outrun his own shadow.\u003cbr\u003e They’d been way up in the north, in Sveriga and Norga,\u003cbr\u003e where even now the forests were still buried in thick snow\u003cbr\u003e and where hunger drove the wolves into the towns. Before\u003cbr\u003e that they’d traveled so far south that the vixen still found\u003cbr\u003e desert sand in her fur. Thousands of miles… cities and countries\u003cbr\u003e she’d never heard of before, and all supposedly to find\u003cbr\u003e an Hourglass. But Fox knew Jacob too well to believe that.\u003cbr\u003e At her feet, the first wild primroses were springing up\u003cbr\u003e between the shattered flagstones. She snapped off one of the\u003cbr\u003e delicate stalks, and the dew rolling off the flowers was still\u003cbr\u003e cold. It had been a long winter, and Fox could feel the past\u003cbr\u003e months like frost on her skin. So much had happened since\u003cbr\u003e the previous summer. All that fear for Jacob’s brother…\u003cbr\u003e and for Jacob. Too much fear. Too much love. Too much\u003cbr\u003e of everything.\u003cbr\u003e She tucked the pale yellow flower into her lapel. Hands…\u003cbr\u003e they made up for the chilly skin her human body came in.\u003cbr\u003e Whenever she wore her fur, Fox missed reading the world\u003cbr\u003e with her fingers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e‘I won’t stay long.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With a quick movement, she grabbed a Thumbling who’d\u003cbr\u003e pushed his tiny hand into her jacket pocket. He only let go of\u003cbr\u003e the gold coin after she shook him as hard as the vixen would\u003cbr\u003e a captured mouse. The little thief bit at her fingers before\u003cbr\u003e he dashed off, muttering insults. Jacob always tucked a few\u003cbr\u003e coins into her pockets before he left. He hadn’t adjusted\u003cbr\u003e to the fact that she now managed quite well in the human\u003cbr\u003e world—even without him.\u003cbr\u003e What was he afraid of?\u003cbr\u003e Fox had asked him, after they’d ridden for days from one\u003cbr\u003e wretched village to the next, only to end up standing beneath\u003cbr\u003e some dead sultan’s dried-up pomegranate tree. She’d asked\u003cbr\u003e him again, when Jacob had gotten himself drunk three nights\u003cbr\u003e in a row after they’d found an overgrown garden with nothing\u003cbr\u003e but a dried-up well in it. \u003ci\u003e‘It’s nothing. Don’t worry.’ \u003c\/i\u003eA kiss on\u003cbr\u003e the cheek and that careless smile she’d been able see right\u003cbr\u003e through since she was twelve. \u003ci\u003e‘It’s nothing…’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She knew that he missed his brother, but this was something\u003cbr\u003e else. Fox looked up at the tower. The charred stones\u003cbr\u003e seemed to whisper a name. Clara. Was that it?\u003cbr\u003e Her heart still tightened whenever she thought of the\u003cbr\u003e brook and the two dead larks. Jacob’s hand in Clara’s hair,\u003cbr\u003e his mouth on her mouth. So ravenous.\u003cbr\u003e Maybe that was why she’d nearly gone with him—for\u003cbr\u003e the first time. She’d even followed Jacob up into the tower,\u003cbr\u003e but in front of that mirror her courage had deserted her. Its\u003cbr\u003e glass seemed to her like dark ice that would freeze her heart.\u003cbr\u003e Fox turned her back to the tower.\u003cbr\u003e Jacob was going to come back.\u003cbr\u003e He always came back.","brand":"Pushkin Children's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302756864229,"sku":"NP9781782691259","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781782691259.jpg?v=1767735520","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/reckless-ii-living-shadows-isbn-9781782691259","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}