Format: Paperback
Age: 10+
Size: 198x129mm
Extent: 400pp
ISBN: 978-1-906427-46-7
Publication date: April 2011
World Rights Rights sold: Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Lithuania, Mainland China, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey, UK and British Commonwealth audio, USA
Fourteen-year-old Ark has the squittiest job on Arborium. A poor plumber’s boy, he unblocks toilets in the city where he lives – a breathtaking, mile-high world carved out of the vast upper branches of a giant canopy of trees.
He believes his forest kingdom to be the dullest but safest place on earth. But while at work, he over hears a plot between a powerful councillor of the island and a secret envoy from Maw, a superpower of glass and steel, that intends robbing Arborium of its wood, a natural resource now more precious than gold.
Ark is plunged into danger and soon he finds himself on the run, fighting for his life. Together with new found friends, he must travel from the highest tree tops to the darkest roots of Ravenwood to save his home and his people.
The arrow flew over his shoulder and thudded straight into a wooden post. Too close! If he hadn’t stumbled out of the way, the shaft would now
