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The Emerald Atlas
John Stephens
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After their parents disappeared ten years ago, Kate, Michael, and Emma have bounced from one miserable orphanage to another. Now they find themselves living in the Adirondacks in a palatial but decrepit place run by a very strange man, Dr. Pym They are the only children in this orphanage.

While exploring their new “home,” the kids stumble across a green book, a very strange blank book that turns out to be magical. What's
more, the children discover powers that they never knew they had. Transported to Cambridge Falls fifteen years in the past, the siblings are caught up in a battle between the beautiful but truly evil witch and a thousand year-old good wizard named Stanislaus Pym,.

The children face shrieking morum cadi beasts, zombielike screechers, a repulsive feast with gluttonous dwarfs, and other frightening adventures as they try to free the people held