{"product_id":"the-secret-country-isbn-9780142501535","title":"The Secret Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first book in the magical, wonderfully interwoven \u003ci\u003eSecret Country\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy. They thought it was a game, but it was its own world... \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Each vacation for the past nine years, cousins Patrick, Ruth, Ellen, Ted, and Laura have played a game they call the “Secret”—an invented, scripted world full of witches, unicorns, a magic ring, court intrigue, and the Dragon King. In the Secret, they can imagine anything into reality, and shape destiny. Then the unbelievable happens: by trick or by chance, they actually find themselves \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e the Secret Country, their made-up identities now real. The five have arrived at the start of their games, with the Country on the edge of war. What was once exciting and wonderful now looms threateningly before them, and no one is sure how to stop it… or if they will ever get back home.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \"An intricate sparkling web of intrigue and magic. One of my very favorites.”—Patricia C. Wrede, author of \u003ci\u003eDealing with Dragons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e | \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Country\u003c\/i\u003e, Pamela Dean is a secret treasure of the fantasy field. Her books are fun, smart, enchanting, exciting, and well grounded in the classic family tradition. The new publication of her trilogy is certain to let more readers in on the secret that Dean is one of the very best writers of magical fiction today.\"--Terri Windling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pamela Dean is a hidden treasure, a writer other writers adore: her quirky, literate characters, her munchy prose, her depth-charge stories. More readers should know about her. And now--maybe they will!\"-- Jane Yolen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It captures, as almost no other book on games-coming-true has captured, the real magic of making stuff up, of running scenes and characters that stretch your idea of who and what you might grow up to be. I loved it so much when I first read it, and had so much trouble finding subsequent volumes. I'm glad a new generation has a whack at it.\"--Delia Sherman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Porcelain Dove\u003c\/i\u003e | \u003cb\u003ePamela Dean (pddb.demesne.com)\u003c\/b\u003e is also the author of \u003ci\u003eTam Lin\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Dubious Hills\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eJupiter,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGentian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eand Rosemary. \u003c\/i\u003eShe lives in Minneapolis with her family.","brand":"Firebird","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304663011557,"sku":"NP9780142501535","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-secret-country-isbn-9780142501535","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}