The Stone Key by Isobelle Carmody
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Isobelle Carmody
Map copyright © 2008 by Penguin Group (Australia)
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This is a slightly modified version of the second half of a work originally published by Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Camberwell, in 2008. Published here by arrangement with Penguin Group (Australia), a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carmody, Isobelle.
The stone key/Isobelle Carmody.—1st American ed.
p. cm.—(Obernewtyn Chronicles; bk. 6)
Summary: Elspeth must find and stop the person infected with the plague before sickness—and ultimately death—threatens everyone in the Land.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89242-4
[1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Extrasensory perception—Fiction. 3. Human-animal communication—Fiction. 4. Plague—Fiction. 5. Science fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C2176St 2008 [Fic]—dc22 2008025197
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